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Plasma Levels of Neuroactive Steroids in Panic Disorder Patients and Healthy Volunteers Following Pentagastrin versus Placebo Injections
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Panic disorder is an anxiety illness that can be quite debilitating and costly to society. To date there is no real cure for panic disorder and current methods of treatment are suboptimal. Given the level of morbidity and societal cost of panic disorder, further research and development of...
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Spring 2016
Depression is a common, recurrent and frequently chronic mental health disorder that has already become one of the leading health-care burdens. Despite the wide clinical application of antidepressants, a significant portion of patients does not benefit sufficiently from the standard medication...
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Spring 2014
Major depression (MD) is one of the most prominent medical conditions worldwide in terms of societal cost and morbidity. MD has been associated with increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and conversely CVD has been associated with increased MD symptoms. Previous studies have shown that...
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The Antidepressant/Antipanic/Neuroprotective Drug Phenelzine: Neuropharmacological and Drug Metabolism Studies
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Phenelzine (PLZ) is a monoamine oxidase (MAO)-inhibiting antidepressant with anxiolytic and neuroprotective properties. Metabolites of PLZ were investigated in rat brain. Levels of phenylacetic acid (PAA) and β-phenylethylamine (PEA) were found to be elevated after administration of PLZ and PEH...
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Neurochemical and neuroprotective aspects of phenelzine and its active metabolite B-phenylethylidenehydrazine
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Phenelzine (PLZ) is a monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitor that also inhibits the activity of GABA-transaminase (GABA-T), causing significant and long-lasting increases in brain GABA levels. Inhibition of MAO prior to PLZ administration has been shown to prevent the GABAergic effects of the drug,...