BDNF is well established to be involved in the pathogenesis of a multitude of neurological and psychiatric disorders, such as Parkinson’s (Palasz et al., 2020) and Alzheimer’s diseases (Ng et al., 2019), epilepsy (Iughetti et al., 2018), depression (Yang et al., 2020), anxiety disorders (Suliman et al., 2013) and many others. This evidence concerns the gene BDNF and epilepsy.