Do you believe epilepsy is a neurological condition or mental illness?

[Anonymous]

I read on Poe – Fast AI Chat that epilepsy used to be considered a mental illness by doctors in the USA in the past but later they reclassified it as a neurological condition instead.

[elaphe]

A lot of disorders involving the nervous system are like that. The psychiatry/neurology dichotomy is artificial; both specialties deal with brain diseases. There are medical schools that are getting rid of distinct psychiatry and neurology departments in favor of clinical neuroscience departments. Charcot, who did the first research on hysteria (psychiatry) was a neurologist. Freud, the father of psychoanalysis. was a neurologist. Alzheimer, who described the disease now bearing his name (neurology) was a psychiatrist.

[integrale77]

Neurological it's just science has moved on and they have the research to back up the new classification.

[Brittanyroseee]

Neurological

[LiamJHayden]

Neurological