Treatment, psychiatric tranquilizing drugs

Tranquilizers (also called antianxiety drugs) are used to treat a variety of psychiatric disorders which go along with anxiety (anxiety disorders). Serotonin-reuptake inhibitors and the benzodiazepines are the most commonly employed drugs for the treatment of common clinical anxiety disorders. 

By and large the drug treatments for AD merely attempt to diminish the impact of the psychiatric symptoms. Major and minor tranquilizers and antidepressants, which we will be discussing shortly, can help in the management of AD victims in the early stages of the condition. Attempts have been made to treat apparent decreases in the amount of acetylcholine in the hippocampal area of the brain. This is due to lower choline acetyl transferase activity. Acetylcholinesterase... 

The Food and Dmg Administration (FDA) estimates that over 60 million people receive prescriptions for tranquilizers every year. In the 1980s, the focus of psychiatric care was on depression and its treatment in the 1990s, the focus turned to the early identification, diagnosis, and treatment of anxiety disorders. This shift in focus resulted in a corresponding shift in drug usage patterns. 

Soon after its introduction as a hypnotic drug, phenobarbital was found to be an excellent antiepileptic drag. Historically, agents introduced for the treatment of epilepsy are also turned to for psychiatric indications. The original first generation antiepileptic drag, a bromide salt, which appears in 1857, was also known for its tranquilizing... 

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