Are seizures always indicative of a neurological disorder?
They mean something is going wrong in the brain, but that doesn’t mean someone has a neurological disorder. Anyone can have a seizure, and people do have them for a variety of reasons– high fever, low blood sugar, etc. Epilepsy, and Seizure Disorders, of course, cause seizures, but those are not the only things. Healthy people, with normal brains, sometimes have problems. Occasionaly, those problems will cause seizures. A seizure is like an electrical storm in the brain. The size and location of the storm varies. It can be a small storm that happens in just one place, or it can be a big storm that takes place in the whole brain. This factors influence what sort of seizure it is. Most people are fine after a seizure– the majority of seizures don’t cause damage. The reason for the seizure is what doctors tend to look for. Seizures are symptoms. They could be symptoms of something like low blood sugar, or an infection, or any number of things. When those things are treated, then the bra
