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According to the International League Against Epilepsy, a seizure is defined as the transitory apparitions of signs and symptoms due to excessive or synchronous neuronal activity on the brain. Epilepsy, on the other hand, is defined as a disease where two or more unprovoked seizures occurred more than 24 hours apart, one unprovoked seizure and a greater probability of recurrence than 60% or the diagnosis of an epileptic syndrome. Mistakenly, both terms could be interchangeably used. In the clinical context there are certain conditions that predispose the patient to suffer more seizures and, thus, be diagnosed with epilepsy. These conditions have been recognized before, and there is more information regarding their incidence and the relative risk of recurrence when a seizure happens in the context of this diseases. Some of these aforementioned diseases are stroke, dementia and traumatic brain injury.
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