**Meet the editor**

Professor Humberto Foyaca Sibat graduated as a medical doctor in Havana University in 1971. He became a specialist in neurology in 1975 and second-degree specialist in 1984. He is married and has three daughters and one son. Dr. Foyaca has been an associate professor of Walter Sisulu University for more than 20 years. He also holds a PhD and Master degree in Science and is

a full professor and full research investigator of the Cuban Academy of Sciences. Dr. Foyaca is a member of 15 medical societies from all over the world, he has presented more than 380 papers in different scientific events, and he published more than 75 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals. He is the chief editor of The Internet Journal of Neurology, currently the largest electronic journal of neurology worldwide. He received and delivered many short training courses and organized many national and international conferences. Prof. Foyaca edited five books and published nine chapters for IntechOpen.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Background 1**

**Directions 13**

Borut Peterlin

**Treatment 69**

**Seizures 137** Cicek Hocaoglu

**Patients 153**

Elizabeth D. Mynatt

**Neurocysticercosis 97**

Grijalva

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Seizures and Its Historical**

Chapter 2 **Autoimmune Epilepsy: New Development and Future**

Chapter 3 **Diagnostic Testing in Epilepsy Genetics Clinical Practice 33**

Chapter 4 **Self-Reporting Technologies for Supporting Epilepsy**

Chapter 5 **Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures in Patients Living with**

Chapter 6 **Treatment and Diagnosis of Psychogenic Nonepileptic**

Chapter 7 **Subarachnoid Cysticercosis and Ischaemic Stroke in Epileptic**

Humberto Foyaca-Sibat and Lourdes de Fátima Ibañez-Valdés

Sandra Orozco-Suarez, Angélica Vega-Garcia, Iris Feria-Romero, Lourdes Arriaga-Pizano, Emmanuel Rodriguez-Chavez and Israel

Birute Tumiene, Algirdas Utkus, Vaidutis Kučinskas, Aleš Maver and

Jonathan Bidwell, Eliana Kovich, Cam Escoffery, Cherise Frazier and

Lourdes de Fátima Ibañez-Valdés and Humberto Foyaca-Sibat

Humberto Foyaca-Sibat and Lourdes de Fátima Ibañez-Valdés
