Identify the disease from the following, symptoms. Continuous muscular contraction Frothy discharge from the mouth Clenching of the teeth Patient falls unconscious. Write the cause of this disease.

In epilepsy, the functioning of the brain and the nervous system becomes abnormal. Symptoms of epilepsy are continuous muscular contraction, frothy discharge from the mouth, clenching of the teeth following which the patient falls unconscious. The main cause of this disease is the continuous and irregular flow of electric charges in the brain. In this condition seizures usually last for 1-3 minutes and the seizures lasting more than five minutes are fatal.

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