Taenia solium (the pork tapeworm) is present in most developing countries, where it is a frequent cause of seizures and other neurological disease. Parasitic larvae invade the human brain, establish, and eventually resolve, leaving a calcified scar. While these lesions are common in endemic regions and most of these are clinically silent, a proportion of individuals with calcified cysticerci develop seizures from these lesions and in from 30–65% of the time associated with perilesional edema, likely due to host inflammation. This manuscript summarizes the importance, characteristics, natural history and potential prevention and treatments of symptomatic calcified neurocysticercosis.