BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Epilepsy can be a scary diagnosis, and in children, the diagnosis not only effects the patients but can also effect the parents as well.

This month is National Epilepsy Awareness Month, and Norton Children’s Hospital is highlighting childhood epilepsy and what parents need to keep in mind. Epilepsy is a disease that causes seizures that can range from the violent shaking that most people think over but can also manifest is a less violent and quiet form as well. Epilepsy could be caused by many different situations.

“There are many causes, you know, epilepsy is a collection of rare diseases, and each of them can have their own cause. And it varies by age. And some children, we find structure causes like how the brain is formed, or a small area of scar tissue from a st

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