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J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect
November 2024
HCA Healthcare, Nashville, TN 37203, USA.
Background: Alcohol abuse leads to millions of hospital admissions each year in the United States. Alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS) is associated with several serious complications, including seizures, delirium tremens, and death. Benzodiazepines have been the mainstay of treatment for hospitalized patients with alcohol withdrawal.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSeizure
January 2025
Department of Pharmacy Practice, Auburn University Harrison College of Pharmacy, Auburn, AL 36049, United States.
Purpose: On November 28, 2023, the U.S. FDA issued a Drug Safety Communication, warning that antiseizure medications (ASMs) levetiracetam and clobazam can cause a rare but serious reaction, drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBMC Psychiatry
January 2025
Research Center of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Islamic Republic of Iran.
Introduction: Mental disorders, such as anxiety and depression, significantly impacted global populations in 2019 and 2020, with COVID-19 causing a surge in prevalence. They affect 13.4% of the people worldwide, and 21% of Iranians have experienced them.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPharmacol Biochem Behav
December 2024
RespireRx Pharmaceuticals Inc., Glen Rock, NJ, USA.
Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent psychiatric pathology with substantial cost to society, but the existing treatments are often inadequate. This has rekindled the interest in the GABA-receptor (GABAR) positive allosteric modulator (PAM) compounds, which have a long history in treatment of anxiety beginning with diazepam, chlordiazepoxide, and alprazolam. While the GABAR PAMs possess remarkable anxiolytic efficacy, they have fallen out of favor due to a host of adverse effects including sedation, motor impairment, addictive potential and tolerance development.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci
October 2024
Institute of Forensic Science & Criminology, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India. Electronic address:
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