First-ever SCN2a International Awareness Day will help support the FamilieSCN2a Foundation mission -coordinating and collaborating with researchers around the world to find the cause of and cure for SCN2a mutations.  

What is SCN2A?
SCN2a is a sodium ion channel gene located on chromosome 2. Sodium ion channels are proteins in cells that allow sodium to pass to the inside. Sodium ion channels play a key role in a cell's ability to generate and transmit electrical signals.Seizure Disorders Associated with SCN2a: Epilepsy, Benign Familial Infantile Seizures (type 3), Early Infantile Epileptic Encephalopathy (type 11), Otahara, West Syndrome, Generalized Epilepsy with Febrile Seizures, Migrating Partial Epilepsy of Infancy (MPEI).

More information on the significance of the date, what the goal is by raising awareness and how people can participate can be found on here.