Immunological aspects of epilepsy. A review of the literature.

Abstract

In recent years, the concept of an immunological background of some types of epilepsy has been gaining an increasing number of supporters. this is implied by the fact that there are a large number of epileptic patients with drug-resistance and also in many cases of drug-resistant epilepsy there is a considerable reduction in seizure frequency with immunomodulatory treatment. the following article is a briefly review of the most significant studies that support this theory. we also discuss the immunological abnormalities found in patients receiving atiepileptic therapy and the efficacy of immunomodulatory treatment.