Traumatic brain Injury (TBI), apart from its major morbidity and mortality is a major cause of epilepsy, particularly in young adults. Post-traumatic seizures (PTS), identified as early as 460 BC by Hippocrates, have been defined as seizure occurring after head trauma which is causally related to the trauma itself. Diagnosis of epilepsy (of any kind) is reserved for patients who have had two or more unprovoked seizures. This important sequel of head injury has been widely studied in terms of epidemiology, prophylaxis and treatment. TBI accounts for 20% of the symptomatic epilepsies in general population.
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