current by 60% and the Ca²⁺-activated K⁺ currents by 39.1 ± 6.4% in rat and cat thalamocortical cells. It was concluded that the decrease in Na⁺ current is responsible for the anti-absence properties.

In the introduction of a paper published in 2001, Dr. Juan Carlos Gomora and colleagues at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville pointed out that past studies were often done in isolated neurons that