Dietary and botanical anxiolytics
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Dietary and botanical anxiolytics
Drugs used to treat anxiety have many negative side effects including addiction, depression, suicide, seizures, sexual dysfunction, headaches and more. Anxiolytic medications do not restore normal levels of neurotransmitters but instead manipulate the brain chemistry. For example, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) prevent the reuptake of serotonin from the synapse allowing seroton...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Science Monitor
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1234-1010
DOI: 10.12659/msm.882608