An estimated 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy. But research funding is low, treatment can fail and the mechanisms of the disease are a mystery. By Neil Savage.

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Savage, N. Epidemiology: The complexities of epilepsy. Nature 511, S2–S3 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/511S2a
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