Researchers from Lund University, Sweden, have discovered higher levels of immune proteins in the blood before and after an epileptic seizure. The possible biomarkers can be identified using a simple blood test. Diagnosing epilepsy can currently be resource intensive, and distinguishing it from other conditions sometimes very challenging. The research team has compared epileptic seizures with what are known as psychogenic non-epileptic seizures. Psychogenic seizure is a psychiatric diagnosis that manifests itself through clinical symptoms that can easily be mistaken for epilepsy and thereby treated with epilepsy medication without success. That is why there is a great need to be able to distinguish between the conditions more easily. Better diagnostic methods as soon as the patient seeks medical care after suspected seizures will increase the quality and efficiency in epilepsy practice.