Finding the balance between overtreatment and undertreatment of uncontrolled epilepsy

Ángel Aledo-Serrano is a neurologist and epileptologist currently serving as the Director of the Vithas Clinical Neuroscience Institute at Vithas Madrid University Hospitals (Spain). In this interview, Aledo-Serrano discusses uncontrolled epilepsy, including the factors that affect overtreatment and undertreatment of uncontrolled epilepsy and how knowing your patient is crucial to finding a balance between the two. What is uncontrolled epilepsy? We define uncontrolled epilepsy as epilepsy where seizures are not controlled after trying some different antiseizure medications, normally after the second medication. This is not a permanent label, when you control the seizures, you don't use that name anymore. What...