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Epilepsy is a brain disorder in which a person has repeated seizures over time. Seizures are episodes of uncontrolled and abnormal firing of brain cells that may cause changes in attention or behavior. Epilepsy occurs when permanent changes in the brain cause it to be too excitable or irritable. As a result, the brain sends out abnormal signals. This leads to repeated, unpredictable seizures. (A single seizure that does not happen again is not epilepsy.)
1 Some young children may be born with a structural change in an area of the brain that gives rise to seizures. 2  About 3 out of 10 children with autism spectrum disorder may also have seizures. 3  The exact cause and relationship is still not clear. 4  Infections of the brain are also common causes of epilepsy.