Allison Martin Epilepsy and the Family is a detailed guide to epilepsy and its impact on the individual and the family.
Epilepsy is the tendency to have recurring seizures.
According to Dr. Lechtenberg, a person who is vulnerable to seizures has a lowered seizure threshold. It may be temporarily lowered or it may be chronically lowered, the latter results in a tendency to have recurrent seizures under conditions that provoke no seizures in most of the healthy population. He describes a variety of structural and chemical abnormalities in the brain such as brain tumors, malformation of blood vessels, central nervous system infection, head injury, or stroke as examples of factors that can lead to seizures. Hereditary patterns also occur. Parents will find the book useful, albeit a bit frightening, as much of the information is not age specific.