Over 3 million Americans with epilepsy experience seizures due to abnormal electrical activity in the brain, and the technology is increasing to help those with this particular type of seizure. A small group of the population suffers from nonepileptic seizures, or functional seizures, which were believed not to be caused by structural changes to the brain for a long time. Wesley Kerr, M.D., Ph.D., a neurologist and epileptologist at the University of Michigan Health, discusses the misdiagnosis of epilepsy and differentiating between epileptic and nonepileptic seizures.
