Introduction: Epilepsy is a neurological disease which can cause psychological problems for people suffering from it. The aim of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on psychological well- being in people with epilepsy.

Materials & methods: In the current research, semi-experimental design with the method of pre-test and post-test and a 2 month follow up with control group and convenience sampling method were used. Research population was the people suffering from epilepsy referring to Imam Hossein hospital in the autumn and winter of 1394. Among these people, 32 individuals fitting the research criteria were chosen and put randomly in the control and experiment group. The individuals of experiment group were under acceptance and commitment treatment in 10 sessions each of which last 75 minutes. The tool for doing this research was Ryff (1989) questionnaire consisting of 84 questions, and its data were analyzed by Spss-21 software.

Findings: The analysis of multi-variant co-variance showed that the acceptance and commitment therapy had a significant effect on the on psychological well- being in people with epilepsy. Also, the effects of this therapy lasted for 2 months (0/01).

Discussion & conclusions: The results of the study indicated that the acceptance and commitment therapy was efficient in the improvement of the psychological wellbeing of patients with epilepsy. Thus, the use of this therapy is recommended in order to improve the psychological wellbeing of the patients suffering from epilepsy.

Introduction: Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy is one of the most common complex partial syndromes which its common treatment is medication. The present study aims at comparing the efficacy of drug therapy and drug therapy combined with neurofeedback on decrement of severity of epileptic symptoms in patients with refractory left temporal lobe epilepsy in Isfahan city.

Materials & methods: This is a single case study, with MBD design and multiple baselines, in which two patients with refractory left temporal lobe epilepsy were recruited from Masih Epilepsy Centre in Isfahan city. The subjects were entered to MBD design after the baseline phase. They received 30 sessions of neurofeedback individually, and two weeks after the intervention, they were reassessed in the follow up phase for three consequent weeks. Scale of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Symptoms" was used to collect the data.

Findings: The results showed that according to the visual analysis of the data, neurofeedback intervention was effective for both of the patients, with PND 100% for the first patient, and PND 90% for the other. The decrement of severity of epileptic symptoms was maintained constant three weeks following the intervention.

Discussion & conclusions: The findings suggest that neurofeedback is effective on decrement of severity of epileptic symptoms in patients with refractory temporal lobe epilepsy in Isfahan city.