• The book is divided into two chapters:

- Chapter 1 Medical aspects of epilepsy which deals with diagnosis and management.

- Chapter 2 Social aspects of epilepsy which deals with education, employment, marriage, etc.

• Emphasizes on clinical management with salient features for the diagnosis and differentiation of epileptic seizures and epilepsies.

• It is the outcome of the author’s 40 years of experience as a neurologist and epileptologist, as a long standing-postgraduate teacher and a socially oriented consultant.

• Appraises the clinician to educate the people and their families with epilepsy, on social aspects of epilepsy which is highly misunderstood with a lot of stigma attached to it.