Question: How is this type of epilepsy different to the more common version?

Faith Davies answered on 11 May 2020:

Hi Abi,
Nice question. So there’s no difference between this type of epilepsy and the more common version in terms of how the epilepsy looks, or how it’s experienced by the sufferer..the only difference lies in the CAUSE. You can think of epilepsy as an imbalance between two opposing types of electrical signals in the brain: excitation and inhibition. Normally these two opposing signals are in some kind of balance in our brain, but in epilepsy they get out of balance, and this causes the ‘electrical storm’ of an epilepsy seizure. *Anything* that causes excitation and inhibition to get out of balance will give you epilepsy.

So, the genetic disease I research causes an imbalance in electrical signals in the brain..but exactly how it causes this imbalance is what no-one knows, and what I’m trying to work out. let me know if that’s not clear..