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Epilepsy is not a disease: proposal for a new approch in the international classification of diseases (ICD)

Epilepsia não é uma doença: proposta para uma nova estrutura da epilepsia dentro da classifcação internacional das doenças (CID)

What is epilepsy? a disease? a symptom? a syndrome? is it important to define it? Basing his study on an extensive bibliography, the author shows that epilepsy is not a disease. He emphasizes the significance of that definition and suggest a new approach in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD).

epilepsy; disease; symptom; syndrome; psychoses; new classification


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