If I have one seizure, will I definitely have another?

If I have one seizure, will I definitely have another?

Charles Ribak, Ph.D. (Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, UC Irvine School of Medicine) gives expert video advice on: If I have one seizure, will I definitely have another?; Is there a cure for epilepsy?; What are the surgical treatments for epilepsy? and more...

With regards to the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy, having one seizure and defiantly having others does depend on the underlying cause of the seizure. For some seizures, a febrile seizure or a seizure induced by a high fever in a young child may never occur again in the future. In terms of a bullet wound to the brain or a tumor, the first seizure is probably going to be one of many seizures that will be come again unless treated in some way.