The challenges to control epilepsy in an isolated indigenous tribe in Brazil's Amazon: 15 years of follow-up

Affiliations

Marcos Manoel Honorato: ORCiD; Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Departamento de Neurologia e Neurocirurgia, São Paulo SP, Brazil.
Renata Carvalho Cremaschi: ORCiD; Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Departamento de Neurologia e Neurocirurgia, São Paulo SP, Brazil.
Fernando Morgadinho Santos Coelho: ORCiD; Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Departamento de Neurologia e Neurocirurgia, São Paulo SP, Brazil.

Abstract

Background Epilepsy is a common neurological disease that affects people all over the world, but it is rarely described in indigenous peoples.

ISSN: 0004-282X (Print); 1678-4227 (Online)
Publisher: Academia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABNEURO)
Country of publisher: Brazil
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Website: https://www.scielo.br/j/anp/