{"id":19493,"date":"2017-11-07T04:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T04:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/?p=19493\/"},"modified":"2017-11-07T04:00:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T04:00:30","slug":"what-is-epilepsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/what-is-epilepsy\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Epilepsy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<em>Epilepsy, Convulsions, seizures or fits are some of the most common neurological disorders, with an annual incidence of 35 to 52 cases per 100,000 persons. It is a central nervous system disorder that affects the nerve cell activity in the brain characterized by the presence of recurrent, unprovoked seizures.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The patient has a propensity to manifest recurrent episodes of disturbed behavior symptoms and sensations, including loss of consciousness. Seizures or convulsions can have profound physical and psychosocial consequences.<\/p>\n<p>However, one single seizure or fit does not indicate Epilepsy. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/diseases\/\">disease<\/a>\u00a0can only be diagnosed if there is an underlying tendency toward recurrent, unprovoked seizures or fits.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1510027202938{margin-bottom: 60px !important;}&#8221;][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=16&amp;v=knaGCKh7SFU&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Epilepsy, Convulsions, seizures or fits are some of the most common neurological disorders, with an annual incidence of 35 to 52 cases per 100,000 persons. It is a central nervous system disorder that affects the nerve cell activity in the brain characterized by the presence of recurrent, unprovoked seizures. The patient has a propensity to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gncdubai.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}