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Anti-Anxiety Agents

Known as: Anti Anxiety Agents, Anti Anxiety Drugs, ANXIOLYTICS 
Agents that alleviate ANXIETY, tension, and ANXIETY DISORDERS, promote sedation, and have a calming effect without affecting clarity of consciousness… 
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Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
A Five Minute Experience in the Elevated Plus-Maze Alters the State of the Benzodiazepine Receptor in the Dorsal Raphe Nucleus
A single 5 min exposure to the elevated plus-maze test of anxiety renders animals insensitive to the anxiolytic effects of the… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Fatal Poisonings Attributed to Benzodiazepines in Britain during the 1980s
The fatal toxicity indices of benzodiazepines during the 1980s were calculated from national prescribing data and mortality… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
The actions of diazepam and serotonergic anxiolytics vary according to the gender and the estrous cycle phase
Review
1989
Review
1989
Prescribing of Psychotropics in Elderly Nursing Home Patients
This study examined the prescribing of psychotropic drugs for patients 65 years of age and older in nursing homes using data from… 
Review
1988
Review
1988
Long-term care of the elderly. A descriptive study of 3600 institutionalized patients in the county of Västerbotten, Sweden.
Probands (n = 3607) living in long-term care institutions in the county of Västerbotten were assessed to estimate whether the… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Pustative anxiolytics 8-OH-DPAT, buspirone and TVX Q 7821 are agonists at 5-HT1A autoreceptors in the raphé nuclei
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
A benzodiazepine receptor-mediated model of anxiety. Studies in nonhuman primates and clinical implications.
beta-Carboline-3-carboxylic acid ethyl ester (beta-CCE) binds with high affinity to brain benzodiazepine receptors and has potent… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Hypothalamic monoamine control of stress-induced adrenocorticotropin release in the rat.
Despite evidence that ACTH release after stress is under excitatory hypothalamic control, a stimulatory role for any of the… 
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Corticosterone ‐ an anxiogenic or an anxiolytic agent?
Corticosterone (3–12 mg kg−1, i.p., giving rise to plasma corticosterone concentrations from 26.7 to 89.0 μg/100 ml) failed to… 
Review
1973
Review
1973
Psychotropic drugs in use today. The role of diazepam in medical practice.
  • B. Blackwell
  • Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA…
  • 1973
  • Corpus ID: 42711584
Until the discovery of chlorpromazine in 1952, there were no specific drug treatments in psychiatry, only sedatives and… 
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