ABSTRACT
Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder, occurring in 5:1000 children (Cowan et al. 1989) and in 4#7:1000 adults (Hauser and Annegers 1993), such that in the UK it has been estimated that there are approximately 350,000 people with a diagnosis of epilepsy (Brown and Betts 1994). The prevalence of epilepsy is reported to be ten times that of multiple sclerosis and a hundred times that of motor neurone disease (Brown et al. 1993).
