The medications discussed in this section have anxiolysis in common. Although benzodiazepines have a wide variety of clinical applications (e.g., as pre anesthetics, in the treatment of status epilepticus, as muscle relaxants, and…

This section includes medications that are commonly used in psychiatric practice but that do not fall into the conventional categories of psychotherapeutic drugs. Many medications used in general medical practice have side…

Antidepressants are used commonly in medical and psychiatric practice. As a class, antidepressants have in common their ability to treat major depressive illness. Most antidepressants are also effective in the treatment of panic…

Although Prozac has achieved phenomenal marketing success, it may not be as effective as certain other antidepressants, according to a recent systematic review.

Researchers led by Andrea Cipriani,…