“…Various synthetic T-channel blockers have been described in the past few years (McGivern, 2006;Lory and Chemin, 2007;Giordanetto et al, 2011), including TTA-A2 [(R)-2-(4-cyclopropylphenyl)-N-(1-(5-(2,2,2-trifluoroethoxy)pyridin-2-yl)ethyl)acetamide], a potent and specific inhibitor of T-current (Uebele et al, 2009a,b;Kraus et al, 2010;Reger et al, 2011). In vivo studies have demonstrated that TTA-A2 reduces absence epilepsy seizures (Uebele et al, 2009b;Reger et al, 2011), pain perception (Francois et al, 2013), nicotine selfadministration (Uslaner et al, 2010), and weight gain (Uebele et al, 2009a), and it ameliorates the sleep quality (Uebele et al, 2009a;Kraus et al, 2010;Reger et al, 2011) and displays antipsychotic properties (Uslaner et al, 2012).…”