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Epilepsy is a disorder of the central nervous system, commonly in brain. our nervous system is a communication network that controls every thought, emotion, impression, memory as well as movement, essentially defining who we are. nerves throughout the body function like telephone lines, enable the brain to communicate with our body through electrical signals. the brain's electrical rhythms have a tendency to become imbalance. resulting in recurrent seizures. there are different concept about epilepsy that you need to learn. first is the brain works on electricity. normally the brain continously generates tiny electrical impulse in an orderly pattern. These impulses travel along the network of nerve cells, called neurons, in the brain and throughout the whole body via chemical messengers called neurotransmitters. A seizure occurs when the brain's nerve cells misfire and generate a sudden, uncontrolled surge of electrical activity in the brain. Another concept important to epilepsy is that different areas of the brain control different functions. If seizures arise from a specific area of the brain, then the initial symptoms of the seizure often reflect the functions of that area. The right half of the brain controls the left side of the body, and the left half of the brain controls the right side of the body. So if a seizure starts from the right side of the brain, in the area that controls movement in the thumb, then the seizure may begin with jerking of the left thumb or hand.