KCNQ2 and Epileptic encephalopathy: Among the KCNQ family of proteins, KCNQ2 channels have received particular attention because mutations in this channel have been associated with a variety of neurodevelopmental phenotypes (Jentsch, 2000; Greene and Hoshi, 2017; Geisheker et al., 2017), including epileptic encephalopathy (Weckhuysen et al., 2012; Weckhuysen et al., 2013; Orhan et al., 2014; Saitsu et al., 2012; Kato et al., 2013; Rauch et al., 2012), and more recently, autism (Cornet et al., 2018).