We discovered there is a lot of room for improvement – namely by providing assistive tools to help this judgement by the neurologist, that needn’t come all the way like the regular medical equipment. Gap exists between employing medical equipment (costly and with long period of certification) and the oral interview that the neurologist uses to guide his judgement (that could be misleading). These costs tends to be higher for uncontrolled or treatment-refractory epilepsy.
Some studies show that annual per-person, epilepsy-specific costs ranged from one thousand to up to twenty thousand dollars. However, this technique is, due to its cost and availability of personnel and specialized medical institution framework, often not available for many in the need. Between 20 and 50% of people who undergo this diagnostic tool are found to have psychogenic seizures – visually indistinguishable and often falsely attributed to epilepsy. The gold standard for diagnosing epilepsy is the usage of combined EEG (electroencephalography) and video data. More to that, about 1 in 26 people will develop epilepsy at some point during their lifetime. Epilepsy can begin at any age and can seriously affect lives of people on multiple levels, from social relations to work-related activities. That makes more than 65 million globally. More than 1% of the world population is estimated to suffer from this disorder, which is not specific to race, ethnicity or geographical specifics. It is present across the globe, with yet undetermined causes. Epilepsy is a prevailing neurological problem in which the brain activity becomes abnormal, often leading to seizures or unusual and abnormal behaviour.
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