There have been many recent advances in epilepsy. Here only a few advances have been selected from large numbers of publications during 2013-2015. Many important publications (inflammation in neurological diseases, optokinetic therapies, functional MRI etc.) that would have been worth of presentation were not included. The following four topics were chosen: enlarged indication of ketogenic diet, restriction of use of valproate for women, targeted gene therapy for epilepsy, and advances of animal studies. The selection of these topics were based on the personal interest of the writer.