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Overview of Anxiolytic Drugs by Ranjitha Arumugam is a document available to read on EtoBox.
1. The document discusses various classes of sedative, hypnotic, and anti-anxiety drugs including benzodiazepines, non-benzodiazepine hypnotics, atypical anxiolytics, beta-adrenergic antagonists, and barbiturates. 2. Barbiturates produce dose-dependent sedative effects ranging from anxiety relief to hypnosis, anesthesia, coma and death. Their mechanism of action involves facilitating the effects of the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA. 3. Benzodiazepines are commonly used to treat anxiety, insomnia, as p
- Author
- Ranjitha Arumugam
- Language
- EN