The Excitable Brain: What Every Clinician Should Know About Epilepsy

After completing this course, health professionals will be able to:

• Articulate 5 major changes to the classification system on seizures.
• Summarize research findings on the neurocognitive and neurobehavioral sequelae in patients with epilepsy, including listing at least 5 common anti-epileptic medications (AEDs) and their possible side-effects.
• Describe the relationship between epilepsy, psychogenic non-epileptic seizures, and 3 prevalent psychiatric disorders (e.g.,depression, anxiety, personality disorders) and other possible co-morbid psychiatric conditions.
• Recognize the 7 important domains in neuropsychological testing in this population and identify at least 10 measures commonly used in the neuroassessment of epileptic patients worldwide.
• Utilize the data from assessment profiles of 6 sample cases referred for neuropsychological evaluation with a differential diagnosis of possible epilepsy, psychiatric disorder, and other neurologic disorder to guide in their ability to facilitate proper diagnosis and clinically advocate for patients within an interdisciplinary model.

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The presenter and all members of the planning team have disclosed that they have no relevant financial commercial relationships to products or devices related to the content of this educational activity. Wherever possible, generic or non-proprietary names of medication have been used. Courses include expert peer reviews of the content where applicable.