Epilepsy: Diagnosis and TreatmentAbout This Hardback Epilepsy is a disorder of nervous system that is characterized by recurring epileptic seizure. A seizure is a period of symptoms that happens because of abnormal excessive neuronal activity in the cortex of the brain. It may vary from short to long periods of forceful and uncontrolled shaking movements. Most of the time these movements last for less than two minutes but it takes some time for the person to return to the normal