Prevention of<unk>  involves preventing brain trauma in general; protective measures include bicycle helmets and child safety seats. No specific treatment exists to prevent the development of<unk>  after TBI occurs. In the past, antiepileptic drugs were used with the intent of preventing the development of<unk> . However, while antiepileptic drugs can prevent early PTS, clinical studies have failed to show that prophylactic use of antiepileptic drugs prevents the development of<unk> . Why antiepileptic drugs in clinical trials have failed to stop<unk>  from developing is not clear, but several explanations have been offered. The drugs may simply not be capable of preventing<unk> , or the drug trials may have been set up in a way that did not allow a benefit of the drugs to be found (e.g. drugs may have been given too late or in inadequate doses). Animal studies have similarly failed to show much protective effect of the most commonly used seizure medications in<unk>  trials, such as phenytoin and carbamazepine. Antiepileptic drugs are recommended to prevent late seizures only for people in whom<unk>  has already been diagnosed, not as a preventative measure. On the basis of the aforementioned studies, no treatment is widely accepted to prevent the development of<unk> . However, it has been proposed that a narrow window of about one hour after TBI may exist during which administration of antiepileptics could prevent epileptogenesis (the development of<unk> . Corticosteroids have also been investigated for the prevention of<unk> , but clinical trials revealed that the drugs did not reduce late PTS and were actually linked to an increase in the number of early PTS.
Post-traumatic epilepsy
Musicogenic epilepsy
Generalized epilepsy
Temporal lobe epilepsy
Rolandic epilepsy
Vertiginous epilepsy
Catamenial epilepsy
Northern epilepsy syndrome