Can epilepsy be cured?

  The key to the problem is how to understand the word “cure”. Many lay people understand “cure” to mean that the disease disappears completely after a certain treatment period. According to this idealized standard, most diseases cannot be “cured”, so should we just give up on treatment? In fact, epilepsy is a treatable condition in the medical field. Most epilepsies are seizure-free or rarely occur with proper treatment. People with well-controlled epilepsy can work, study, and play as others do, and can fall in love, get married, and have children normally; except for the need for regular medication and a few contraindications, they are not very different from normal, disease-free people. In this sense, most epilepsies (about 70%) can be cured.