Epilepsy: Support through Special Education
Words: 1687 Pages: 6 1519Although our understanding of epilepsy is relatively recent, it has been well documented for centuries. In ancient days, it was mostly speculated that epilepsy had its roots in the divine, caused by either spirits or demons (Magiorkinis, Sidiropoulou & Diamantis, 2010). Hippocrates, often considered the Father of Medicine in ancient Greece, was the first to suggest that the disorder was not supernatural in nature, but rather hereditary (Novarino, Baek, & Gleeson, 2014). Despite this forward-thinking theory, Hippocrates recommended a number […]
