MEPROBAMATE

məprōˈbəmātˌ, tranquilizing drug that acts as a depressant of the central nervous system and is commonly used in the treatment of anxiety and sometimes schizophrenia. Although meprobamate is chemically unlike barbiturates and has lower toxicity, it has similar pharmacological effects, especially the ability to induce sleep and alleviate anxiety. The drug possesses some anticonvulsant properties and is used to suppress some forms of epilepsy. A muscle relaxant, meprobamate is also used to treat abnormal motor activity. It is marketed under the trade names Equanil and Miltown.

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books on: Meprobamate  - 123 results

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Treatment
Book by Silvano Arieti, Daniel X. Freedman, Jarl E. Dyrud; Basic Books, 1975
Subjects: Psychotherapy
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Advances and New Directions
Book by Silvano Arieti, H. Keith H. Brodie; Basic Books, 1981
Subjects: Psychiatry
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Drugs in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Book by Mortimer Ostow; Basic Books, 1962
Subjects: Psychoanalysis, Psychopharmacology, Psychotherapy
...to the question of instinctual energy, is exemplified by that of Hess 1957 who examined the effects of chlorpromazine, meprobamate, and pentobarbital on imprinting in birds. Tranquilizing drugs have been found to retard the learning of conditioned responses...
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Better Than Prozac: Creating the Next Generation of Psychiatric Drugs
Book by Samuel H. Barondes; Oxford University Press, 2003
Subjects: Antidepressants--Popular Works
...the derivative that became known as meprobamate. Were it not for the discovery...medicine encouraged Berger to find out if meprobamate could also be used for some form of...excited him was his observation that meprobamate seemed to be better than phenobarbital...
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Reinventing Depression: A History of the Treatment of Depression in Primary Care, 1940-2004
Book by Christopher M. Callahan, German E. Berrios; Oxford University Press, 2005
Subjects: Depression, Mental--Treatment--Great Britain--History--20th Century, Depression, Mental--Treatment--United States--History--20th Century, Primary Care (Medicine)--Great Britain--History--20th Century, Primary Care (Medicine)--United States--History--20th Century
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journal articles on: Meprobamate  - 12 results

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John Anthony Carpenter: An Appreciation 1924-2001
Journal article by Mark Edward Lender; Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Vol. 62, 2001
Subjects: Carpenter, John Anthony--Biography, College teachers--Biography
...noteworthy. Carpenter was also lead investigator on the alcohol-meprobamate studies conducted at the Addiction Research Foundation, in...reported in Drug Interactions: The Effects of Alcohol and Meprobamate Applied Singly and Jointly in Human Subjects (1975). The...
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Hepatic and Other Medical Disorders of Alcoholism: From Pathogenesis to Treatment
Journal article by Charles S. Lieber; Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Vol. 59, 1998
Subjects: Alcoholism--Complications
...striking increase in the rate of blood clearance of ethanol, meprobamate (Salaspuro and Lieber, 1978), pentobarbital (Misra et al...ISHII, H., RUBIN, E. AND LIEBER, C.S. Increase of ethanol, meprobamate and pentobarbital metabolism after chronic ethanol administration...
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"Calling Dr. Love": The Physician-Patient Sexual Relationship as Grounds for Medical Malpractice - Society Pays While the Doctor and Patient Play
Journal article by Scott M. Puglise; Journal of Law and Health, Vol. 14, 1999
Subjects: Physician and patient--Laws, regulations, etc., Physicians--Malpractice, Sex (Psychology)--Analysis
...associated with the disease, which affects the nervous system, Dr. Hammargren prescribed quaaludes, valium, elavil, triavil, meprobamate, chloral hydrate, phenobarbitol, seconal, and talwin to combat her anxiety. (188) These drags are depressants with the "recognized...
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Nervous Breakdown in 20th-Century American Culture
Journal article by Megan Barke, Rebecca Fribush, Peter N. Stearns; Journal of Social History, Vol. 33, 2000
Subjects: Neurasthenia--History
...between two different drug regimes.) Widely-prescribed tranquilizers began to give doctors new weapons and new appeal; Miltown (Meprobamate) was the first "minor" tranquilizer available for anxiety. Antidepressant drugs soon followed. With housewives the principal...
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Anxiolytics the Nonbenzodiazepines
Journal article by Alan D. Schmetzer; Annals of the American Psychotherapy Association, Vol. 6, 2003
Subjects: Antianxiety agents--Evaluation, Anxiety, Anxiety--Care and treatment
...in addictive withdrawal has also decreased because they can be deadly when combined with alcohol or other CNS depressants. Meprobamate (EqanilTM and MiltownTM) is very similar to the barbiturates in most respects. Finally, beta-adrenergic blockers such as...
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magazine articles on: Meprobamate  - 2 results

 
 
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A Guide to the Proper Use of Tranquilizers
Magazine article by Annabel Hecht; FDA Consumer, Vol. 19, December 1985
Subjects: Hypnotics and sedatives--Physiological aspects, Sedatives--Physiological aspects, Tranquilizing agents--Physiological aspects, Tranquilizing drugs--Physiological aspects
...medication. Then the doctor may prescribe a minor tranquilizer. At one time drugs such as the barbiturates (phenobarbital) and meprobamate (Miltown and Equanil) were used to treat anxiety. However, because their use may lead to dependency and withdrawal seizures...
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Designer People
Magazine article by Sally Deneen; E, Vol. 12, January 2001
Subjects: Chromosome mapping--Moral and ethical aspects, Genetic engineering--Moral and ethical aspects, Genetic research--Moral and ethical aspects
...wastewater--an antibiotic, a chemical used in perfume production, the muscle relaxant drug carisoprodol, and its metabolite meprobamate, among others. Meanwhile, in metropolitan Kansas City, more than 40 percent of stream samples analyzed by U.S. Geological...


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The Last Days of Bruce Lee
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), April 8, 2006
Subjects: Lee, Bruce, Marley, Bob
...swollen considerably, from 1,400 to 1,575 grams. Chow later claimed that Lee was allergic to Equagesic, an analgesic containing meprobamate, aspirin and ethoheptazine. Eventually, a verdict of death by misadventure was pronounced, listing the cause of death as...


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encyclopedia articles on: Meprobamate  - 7 results

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Meprobamate
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MEPROBAMATE m pro b mat , tranquilizing drug that acts as a...anxiety and sometimes schizophrenia . Although meprobamate is chemically unlike barbiturates and has lower toxicity...suppress some forms of epilepsy . A muscle relaxant, meprobamate is also used to treat abnormal motor activity. It is...
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Miltown
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MILTOWN see meprobamate . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Benzodiazepine
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...early 1960s with chlordiazepoxide (Librium), benzodiazepines were heralded as a safer alternative to barbiturates and meprobamate because they were relatively non habit forming and were less lethal in overdose. There has been considerable debate over...
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Depressant
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...diminish functional activity, usually by depressing the nervous system . Barbiturates , sedatives , alcohol, and meprobamate are all depressants. Depressants have various modes of action and effects. Some are primarily used medically to relieve...
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Sedative
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...hypnotics (see hypnotic drugs ), i.e., they induce sleep, and as anesthetics. Many sedatives, including barbiturates , meprobamate (Miltown), and benzodiazepines (Librium and Valium), are habit-forming and should be taken only under medical direction...
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