Depression drugs used

The most widely known aleohol is ethyl aleohol, simply beeause it is the aleohol in aleoholie drinks. It is also known as grain aleohol, or by its proper name, ethanol. Ethyl aleohol is a eolorless, volatile liquid with a eharaeteristie odor and a pungent taste. It has a flash point of 55°F, is classified as a depressant drug, and is toxic when ingested in large quantities. Its molecular formula is CjHjOH. In addition to its presence in alcoholic beverages, ethyl alcohol has many industrial and medical uses, such as a solvent in many manufacturing processes, as antifreeze, antiseptics, and cosmetics. 

Midazolam (Versed), a short-acting benzodiazepine CNS depressant, is used as a preanesthetic drug to relieve anxiety for induction of anesthesia for conscious sedation before minor procedures, such as endoscopic procedures and to supplement nitrous oxide and oxygen for short surgical procedures. When the drug is used for induction anesthesia, the patient gradually loses consciousness during a period of 1 to 2 minutes. 

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How the different neurotransmitters may be involved in the initiation and maintenance of some brain disorders, such as Parkinson s disease, epilepsy, schizophrenia, depression, anxiety and dementia, as well as in the sensation of pain, is then evaluated and an attempt made to see how the drugs which are used in these conditions produce their effect by modifying appropriate neurotransmitter function (section C). The final section (D) deals with how neurotransmitters are involved in sleep and consciousness and in the social problems of drug use and abuse. 

Procedures that have been suggested as models of depression and used to look for neurochemical changes that parallel the onset of the behavioural change, as well as to test how antidepressants affect the behaviour, are listed in Table 20.3. Those that have been used most, either as a drug screen or in research into the neurobiology of depression, are as follows. 

Married, currently separated denies tobacco and illicit drug use typically drinks a 12-pack of beer daily and several shots of tequila use has recently increased due to depression over marital separation... 

Assess for secondary causes of depression (e.g., alcohol or drug use)... 

Antidepressant A drug used principally to treat major depressive disorder (unipolar depression). 

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