CNR1 and juvenile absence epilepsy: Moreover, in WAG/Rij rats, a genetic model of absence seizures, with a subpopulation also susceptible to audiogenic seizures (Vinogradova, 2008), pharmacological activation of CB1R attenuated absence seizures, but the effects on AS were not assessed (Van Rijn et al., 2010; Citraro et al., 2013).