Commentary on 'epilepsy informatics and an ontology-driven infrastructure for large database research and patient care in epilepsy'

摘要

When I was in training, a senior neurologist passed on an aphorism that he had been taught when he himself was a junior: "You don't understand neurology until you understand epilepsy, and you don't understand epilepsy until you have reclassified it." I am not sure where this quip originated, but it makes an important point: epilepsy is difficult. The difficulty in understanding epilepsy reflects the extraordinary complexity of the human brain. As a result of this complexity, there are many different types of seizures and many reasons that people develop epilepsy.