The International League Against Epilepsy ("ILAE") was started in 1909. Its goal is to improve the lives of people with

epilepsy Epilepsy is a group of Non-communicable disease, non-communicable Neurological disorder, neurological disorders characterized by a tendency for recurrent, unprovoked Seizure, seizures. A seizure is a sudden burst of abnormal electrical activit ...

through research. Today the ILAE has more than 150 national chapters, and over 26,000 members, mostly health care professionals. The ILAE produced the "2017 ILAE Classification of the Epilepsies", and its more detailed follow-up papers, by a number of specialist clinicians, all published in ''Epilepsia''. This replaces earlier classifications of epilepsy syndromes produced by ILAE. They run the medical journals ''Epilepsia'', ''Epilepsia Open'', and '' Epileptic Disorders''.

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* Epilepsy organizations {{disability-stub