Chapter 16

Anxiolytics, Sedatives and Hypnotics

Anxiety: Overview
Anxiety: Overview
Anxiety, a mental disorder characterized by excessive worry, fear, and apprehension, significantly affects daily life. Common symptoms include sweating, ...
Anxiolytic Drugs: Overview
Anxiolytic Drugs: Overview
Anxiolytic drugs effectively manage anxiety disorders by alleviating symptoms like excessive fear, tachycardia, and tremors. Anxiolytics encompass ...
Anxiolytic Drugs: Benzodiazepines and Buspirone
Anxiolytic Drugs: Benzodiazepines and Buspirone
Benzodiazepines are anxiolytic drugs known for their safety due to a substantial therapeutic-to-lethal dose ratio. After oral administration, these ...
Sedatives and Hypnotics: Overview
Sedatives and Hypnotics: Overview
Sedatives belong to a class of drugs that calms the individual, while hypnotics induce and maintain sleep. Both categories work by slowing down the brain ...
Management of Insomnia
Management of Insomnia
The sleep cycle comprises multiple stages, progressing from wakefulness to light sleep and finally into deep sleep, concluding with the Rapid Eye Movement ...
Sedatives and Hypnotics Drugs: Barbiturates
Sedatives and Hypnotics Drugs: Barbiturates
Sedatives and hypnotics are drugs that reduce anxiety, induce calmness, or promote sleep by suppressing the CNS. Barbiturates, a class of ...
Sedatives and Hypnotics Drugs: Benzodiazepines
Sedatives and Hypnotics Drugs: Benzodiazepines
Benzodiazepines are a class of sedative and hypnotic drugs that vary in chemical structure and pharmacokinetic properties. These drugs enhance GABA's ...
Sedatives and Hypnotics Drugs: Miscellaneous Agents
Sedatives and Hypnotics Drugs: Miscellaneous Agents
A variety of  CNS depressants are utilized as sedatives and hypnotics, each with distinct properties. Melatonin congeners help treat insomnia and jet ...
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