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Abstract Epilepsy is the most common neurological disease in general population, and it is second only to depression as the leading cause of neuropsychiatric disability. It affects 1% of the general population. Epilepsy is a chronic recurrent condition that affects lives of children and their families. It affects them like other chronic diseases, and it affects them as a neurological disease through affecting brain development and function. Epilepsy is characterized by the social stigma and the sudden onset and offset of seizures which gives the sense of loss of control in the child and share in the psychopathology. Psychiatric comorbidities in epileptic children are common, and they include the same disorders seen in general population but at a higher prevalence. |