How common are seizures?

How common are seizures?

Charles Ribak, Ph.D. (Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, UC Irvine School of Medicine) gives expert video advice on: What causes a seizure?; If I had a seizure, do I have epilepsy?; Are people with epilepsy more creative? and more...

Seizures occur in roughly 3% of the population, Again 3% will have had a seizure once in their entire lifetime. In terms of epilepsy, people with epilepsy, it's around 1%. Maybe a little less than 1% of the population have epilepsy.