| He sustained a head injury as a child and thereafter suffered from epilepsy and mental handicap. |
| While such a form of epilepsy would not feature seizures, the condition can be seen in lethargic children. |
| Other innovative drugs whose development he oversaw included atracurium, a muscle relaxant, and lamotrigine, an epilepsy drug. |
| Five Government reports have been drawn up into epilepsy since 1953 but campaigners claim none has been put into action. |
| Once considered to be only a last resort, epilepsy surgery has become increasingly common, even for children. |
| A special case of neural sensitization is limbic kindling, which is an animal model for temporal lobe epilepsy. |
