Mechanisms of action of antiseizure drugs and the ketogenic diet

MA Rogawski, W Löscher… - Cold Spring …, 2016 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Antiseizure drugs (ASDs), also termed antiepileptic drugs, are the main form of symptomatic
treatment for people with epilepsy, but not all patients become free of seizures. The …

Genetic associations between voltage-gated calcium channels and psychiatric disorders

A Andrade, A Brennecke, S Mallat, J Brown… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Psychiatric disorders are mental, behavioral or emotional disorders. These conditions are
prevalent, one in four adults suffer from any type of psychiatric disorders world-wide. It has …

A case for thalamic mechanisms of schizophrenia: perspective from modeling 22q11. 2 deletion syndrome

Y Jiang, MH Patton, SS Zakharenko - Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Schizophrenia is a severe, chronic psychiatric disorder that devastates the lives of millions of
people worldwide. The disease is characterized by a constellation of symptoms, ranging …

Discovery of a potent, selective T-type calcium channel blocker as a drug candidate for the treatment of generalized epilepsies

O Bezencon, B Heidmann, R Siegrist… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We report here the discovery and pharmacological characterization of N-(1-benzyl-1 H-
pyrazol-3-yl)-2-phenylacetamide derivatives as potent, selective, brain-penetrating T-type …

[HTML][HTML] A neurosteroid analogue with T-type calcium channel blocking properties is an effective hypnotic, but is not harmful to neonatal rat brain

N Atluri, SM Joksimovic, A Oklopcic, D Milanovic… - British journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background More than 4 million children are exposed annually to sedatives and general
anaesthetics (GAs) in the USA alone. Recent data suggest that common GAs can be …

Strategies of functional foods promote sleep in human being

Y Zeng, J Yang, J Du, X Pu, X Yang… - Current signal …, 2014 - ingentaconnect.com
Sleep is a vital segment of life, however, the mechanisms of diet promoting sleep are
unclear and are the focus of research. Insomnia is a general sleep disorder and functional …

Absent sleep EEG spindle activity in GluA1 (Gria1) knockout mice: relevance to neuropsychiatric disorders

G Ang, LE McKillop, R Purple, C Blanco-Duque… - Translational …, 2018 - nature.com
Sleep EEG spindles have been implicated in attention, sensory processing, synaptic
plasticity and memory consolidation. In humans, deficits in sleep spindles have been …

The long and winding road to gamma-amino-butyric acid as neurotransmitter

M Avoli, K Krnjević - Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences, 2016 - cambridge.org
This review centers on the discoveries made during more than six decades of neuroscience
research on the role of gamma-amino-butyric acid (GABA) as neurotransmitter. In doing so …

Modulation of pacemaker channel function in a model of thalamocortical hyperexcitability by demyelination and cytokines

R Chaudhary, S Albrecht, M Datunashvili… - Cerebral …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
A consensus is yet to be reached regarding the exact prevalence of epileptic seizures or
epilepsy in multiple sclerosis (MS). In addition, the underlying pathophysiological basis of …

Sociability impairments in genetic absence epilepsy rats from Strasbourg: reversal by the T-type calcium channel antagonist Z944

MT Henbid, WN Marks, MJ Collins, SM Cain… - Experimental …, 2017 - Elsevier
Childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) is associated with interictal co-morbid symptoms
including abnormalities in social behaviour. Genetic Absence Epilepsy Rats from Strasbourg …