[Epilepsy as a clinical and neurophysiological problem]

On the basis of both own investigations and publications the next basic aspects of epilepsy were discussed: a) a clinical one--definition of epilepsy, seizures' classification, children's and women's epilepsy, status epilepticus; b) a neurophysiological aspect--epileptic and antiepileptic mechanisms, the significance of slow EEG activity, interhemispheric interactions, influence of the seizures on brain homeostasis.