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The traditional view of NCC as a solitary parenchymal cyst causing seizures has shifted to a heterogeneous syndrome shaped by parasite burden, stage, location, and host immune response. Clinical manifestations extend beyond seizures to headaches, cognitive impairment, psychiatric symptoms, visual loss, movement disorders, and stroke. Progress in neuroimaging, serology, and molecular diagnostics has improved case detection and disease phenotyping, while management increasingly relies on stage and compartment specific combinations of antiparasitic drugs, anti-inflammatory therapy, and neurosurgical or endoscopic interventions for extraparenchymal disease and hydrocephalus. 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