"Up until now we have understood very little about the mechanisms that lead people to have epilepsy. The better we understand it the more accurately we can target therapies. All of these findings will have clinical implications in the future."

I think I may have mentioned this here before, but in case I haven't...I was epileptic as a child and was on phenobarbitol until I was about 13 or 14. I suffered from petit mal seizures and I was one of the lucky ones who simply "grew out of it." The news that the gene likely responsible for juvenile myclonic epilepsy is indeed good news.