Pilot Trial of a Behavioral Treatment for Epilepsy

Exclusion Criteria

• •Unreliable history of seizure semiology.
• •Average seizure frequency less than one seizure per month.
• •Patients in whom it is anticipated that current standard of care would mandate a change in their conventional epilepsy treatment during the time period of the study will be excluded.
• •Patients taking more than 2 anticonvulsant medications will be excluded.
• •Patients with serious other medical problems, such as brain tumors, cancer, stroke, significant heart disease or psychiatric disorders will be excluded.
• •Patients with a high likelihood of psychogenic or nonepileptic seizures will be excluded.
• •Patients with progressive epilepsy syndromes, neurodegenerative disorders or significant mental retardation will be excluded.