About 1% of individuals have epilepsy and, in almost one-third of patients, antiseizure medications do not provide sufficient seizure control, which can result in dramatically impaired quality of life and increased mortality.
Nature Reviews Neurology is excited to publish this special Focus on Epilepsy, which highlights the important challenges and progress in epilepsy research and clinical practice. This focus issue brings together an ensemble of cutting-edge investigators from leading research institutes around the world.
The topics in this issue include global challenges in paediatric epilepsy, the genetic background of the epilepsies and its implications for genetic diagnosis and personalized medicine, prospects for gene therapy in epilepsy, brain stimulation in refractory epilepsy, and mechanisms of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy.
We thank UCB for their financial support for producing this Focus on Epilepsy issue. With the sponsor support, all of the Focus articles can be accessed for free until the end of October 2014 atwww.nature.com/nrneurol/focus/epilepsy. With the exception of the Sponsor Feature and Adverts, the content of this supplement has been developed independently of UCB. Nature Publishing Group carries sole responsibility for the editorial content.
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