**_Epilepsy_** is a chronic neurological disease characterized by repeated and often sudden seizures, which may occur due to excessive distribution of nerve impulses in the brain or as a reaction of the brain to various external and internal stimuli. There is no specific external cause (symptom) for epileptic seizures, so such conditions are diagnosed based on a combination of specific signs (seizures), events preceding them (prefatal symptoms) and heredity (family history).
Differential criteria for diagnosing epileptic seizures were developed by Conor's group in the late 1970s based on