For some of these children, control of the condition can be achieved through medication, surgery, or diet. For other children there are no answers.
Epilepsy can cause a lifetime of problems.
PERC brings together the best researchers and clinicians across a number of medical specialties who are intent on finding new ways to prevent, control, and cure pediatric epilepsy. Out of Control Fifty million people worldwide, including 2.5 million Americans, suffer front some form of epilepsy, or recurring seizure disorder. Of the nearly 200.000 new cases of epilepsy each year in the United States, about 75 percent begin in childhood. Epilepsy is more common in children than diabetes and kidney disease. Epilepsy is always a serious disorder.