What if epilepsy is not a broken circuit but a network pushed into the wrong dynamical state , and what if computational models could guide surgeons to intervene without destroying healthy tissue? Physicist Viktor Jirsa explains how whole-brain mean field models are transforming epilepsy from a localized lesion problem into a network science challenge with direct clinical implications. Subscribe for more from the Convergent Science Network podcast series. Viktor Jirsa joins Paul Verschure and Tony Prescott to describe why epilepsy offers a uniquely tractable entry point for computational neuroscience. Unlike schizophrenia or depression, epileptic seizures produce unmistakable spatiotemporal signatures , high-frequency oscillations visible to the naked eye in electrode recordings, linked to characteristic behavioral patterns as the seizure propaga ...