The theory giving rise to these experiments is that development of exploratory behavior is the clue to the prevention of phobic behavior. A topic of increasing importance is how normal brain phenomena are transformed into aberrant phenomena, characteristic for pathological brain states. A spectral analytical approach, fast Fourier transformation together with neural modelling are the research tools. The effects of external stimuli reaching the brain during sleep are studied in order to prevent people from sleep fragmentation and annoyance. Drugs influencing consciousness, as hypnotics and anxiolytics, are further topics of interest.
Benzodiazepines are the most used drugs for improving sleep and reducing anxiety and stress.
Another topic is the testing of drugs having benzodiazepine-like properties. It appeared to be a genetic model of absence epilepsy and basic data about the genesis of this type of epilepsy are already obtained. Deviant parts of the brain are currently studied. Pharmacological studies emphasizing the role of particular neurotransmitters trace out ways for the development of new rationalistic anti-epileptics. Genetic studies point into the direction of a one-gene aberration.