AnxietyGABAHippocampusGABAARsTemporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), which is one of the most common neurological diseases, is accompanied by a high incidence of psychiatric disorders. Among these psychiatric disorders, anxiety is one of the major psychiatric comorbidities in epilepsy patients. However, anxiety ...
Anxiety Anxiety is a psychological indicator of addiction in periods of non-use as the drug is no longer available to increase gamma-aminobutyric acid 2-fold, resulting in amygdala excitation and panic [5] Althoughanxiety symptoms may be relievedtemporarily with Valium, long-term use maintains anxi...
Everything you need to know about GABA's definition and function, including how it rules our mood and anxiety levels.
3). Epilepsy appears to be correlated with ID inARHGEF9mutation syndrome, being common among those individuals characterized by moderate to severe ID4. The baseline EEG abnormalities involve primarily the low frequency spectral wavelengths including δ and θ bands. Behavioral symptoms of anxiety, hyp...
Anxiety is prevalent in asthma, and is associated with disease severity and poor quality of life. However, no study to date provides direct experimental evidence for the effect of allergic inflammation on the structure and function of medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and amygdala, which are essentia...
Mutant neural progenitor cells exhibit longer neurite lengths compared to controls, alongside with decreased GABA-positive neurons in ASD-related mutant neuronal cultures We observed that the lengths of neurites of neural progenitor cells (NPCs) in mutant groups were significantly increased compared to ...
Both lorazepam and Xanax, like all benzodiazepines, enhance the actions of a neurotransmitter in the brain called GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid). This neurotransmitter can reduce the activity of nerve cells, so enhancing it has a calming effect which can improve symptoms of anxiety, reduce muscle ...
A disrupted sleep-wake cycle caused by methadone dependency results from GABA inhibition, keeping the brain active at night. Sexual libido is decreased in 14% of male methadone users, caused by inhibition on the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis [7]. ...
Thus, the DH may be involved in sex- related stress-modulated behaviors such as drug seeking. Propranolol was effective in animal studies to attenuate withdrawal anxiety and associated drug seeking (Harris and Aston-Jones, 1993; Smith and Aston-Jones, 2008), and propranolol and carvedilol have ...
Non-benzodiazepine hypnotics: Non-benzodiazepines (also referred to as “Z drugs”) are sedatives that are used to treat insomnia because they act on theGABAreceptor. Thesetypes of medications have becomethe most common prescribed hypnotic agents in the world. Possible side effects of Z drugs inc...