The orchestra that is our brain is a very complicated system. There are so many complicated systems working together to produce the beautiful music that we know as life, it can be very difficult to work out what happened when something went wrong. Even the world's top epilepsy researchers can struggle to explain why some people have seizures or how they developed epilepsy. A diagnosis of epilepsy can sometimes be a very difficult thing to make. 

A diagnosis, when it is made, can also be extremely difficult for the person being diagnosed. Their life is about to be turned upside down. For some people it will affect their career, for others, restrictions like not being able to drive can be devastating. 

In this episode, we explore the complexities of making the diagnosis and the difficulties experienced once it has been made. It's a phenomenon that happens more often than you would think. Every 33 minutes, somebody's life is turned upside down by epilepsy. 

The orchestra that is our brain is a very complicated system. There are so many complicated systems working together to produce the beautiful music that we know as life, it can be very difficult to work out what happened when something went wrong. Even the world's top epilepsy researchers can struggle to explain why some people have seizures or how they developed epilepsy. A diagnosis of epilepsy can sometimes be a very difficult thing to make. 
A diagnosis, when it is made, can also be extremely difficult for the person being diagnosed. Their life is about to be turned upside down. For some people it will affect their career, for others, restrictions like not being able to drive can be devastating. 
In this episode, we explore the complexities of making the diagnosis and the difficulties experienced once it has been made. It's a phenomenon that happens more often than you would think. Every 33 minutes, somebody's life is turned upside down by epilepsy.

The brain is like an orchestra. A multitude of components plays their own part all coming together in a symphony of life. "Sometimes parts of the brain are forced to play a different song really fast, in perfect synchrony," says Dr Lila Landowski. "That is when a seizure happens." It's something that affects the lives of millions of people yet, as a society it's something most people don't understand and don't want to talk about. In Symphony of the Brain, we decode and demystify epilepsy, a condition that probably affects your friends and people you love.

Decoding and demystifying epilepsy and the seizure

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