Anticonvulsants anticholinergic drugs

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DIBENZOCYCLOHEPTANES AND DIBENZOCYCLOHEPTENES Drugs in this structural class have effected a revolution in the treatment of severely depressed patients such that deinstitutionalization is a feasible public policy. The compounds often show other CNS activities which depend on the length of the side chain. One-carbon chains generally lead to anticonvulsant activity amines separated from the nucleus by three carbons usually donvey antidepressant activity. Selected examples possess significant anticholinergic activity. 

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