CHAPTER 1: THE HISTORY OF NONCONVULSIVE STATUS EPILEPTICUS.

Chapter 1 of the book "Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus," is presented. The chapter explores the history of nonconvulsive status epilepticus. Greek physician Hippocrates recognized that seizures and epilepsy are brain diseases that affect the speech, hand movements and lungs. Another Greek physician Galen described seizures as idiopathic and proposed that the condition is induced by a dyscrasia of the brain humors due to cold.