Description: Epilepsy treatments fail for one in three patients. Now there's a genetic clue to what's going on -- and what might help. There are several good epilepsy treatments that control epileptic seizures. Yet for many patients, none of them work. It's frustrating to the patients. It's frustrating to their doctors. Researchers are frustrated, too. Why? Different epilepsy drugs work in different ways. If one doesn't work, another should. But that isn't the case.