“…Clinically, these receptors are important drug targets for anti‐convulsant, anxiolytic, and sedative–hypnotic agents including benzodiazepines (BZs), barbiturates, alcohol, certain anesthetics and neurosteroids. Underlying deficits in GABAergic neurotransmission occur in a wide variety of neurological disorders such as epilepsy, psychiatric disorders (anxiety [Mohler, ; Nuss, ], depression [Luscher et al, ; Pehrson and Sanchez, ], post‐traumatic stress disorder [Pitman et al, ; Möller et al, ; Trousselard et al, ; Bandelow et al, ]) and neurodevelopmental disorders including autism (Robertson et al, ; Chao et al, ; Coghlan et al, ), Fragile X (Lozano et al, ; Wang et al, ) and schizophrenia (Gonzalez‐Burgos et al, ; Bristow et al, ; Wijtenburg et al, ). Importantly, pathophysiological events including seizures (Scharfman and Brooks‐Kayal, ), ischemic stroke (Carmichael, ; Blicher et al, ; Wu and Sun, ), traumatic brain injury (Guerriero et al, ) and stress can cause adaptive changes in GABA A R neurotransmission, compromising GABAergic inhibition and further hampering recovery.…”