Epilepsia: tratamento cirúrgico

Abstract

The history of epilepsy and its treatments in Western Society goes back at least four millennia, to the ancient societies of the Middle East. Ancient and modern treatments, as a rule, empirical, reflect the human vision of the problem, sometimes theological, sometimes medical, sometimes superstitious. Treatments for epilepsy began in ancient civilizations with the application of superstition techniques, changes in habits and lifestyle, use of medicinal herbs, and even surgical approaches; the latter, confirmed by evidence of trepanations found in prehistoric human bones from the Neolithic period, in addition to the cave paintings that portrayed them, suggesting that the procedures were used in cases of epilepsy, migraines and mental disorders.