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A Review on Anxiety and Its Current Drug Treatment
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RITIKA SHARMA, DR. PRADEEP GOYAL
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Anxiety, stress and tension are absolutely habitual human feelings. Persistence of these feelings for a longer
period will affects physical and mental health both. It is considered to be the major cause of disability in world.
It comprises of post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder,
panic attacks, phobias as well as depression. The neurotransmitters involved in brain involves in anxiety include
GABA, serotonin, nor-epinephrine and dopamine. The developed ethological animal models (behavioural)
demonstrated the anxiolytic properties of neurotransmitters, with the help of various models neuropeptide
receptor agonist and antagonists, the potency in human clinical samples has concluded. Anti-anxiety medicines
are used to treat anxiety. These medicines act by decreasing brain activity to mitigate the symptoms of anxiety,
apprehensiveness and improving sleep. Prolonged use of these agents can cause serious side-effects such as
cholinergic symptoms, weight gain, paradoxil effects, disturbed sleep etc. Thus, urgent need for new antianxiety
drugs is a global concern. Thus, the insistence of herbal medicines is expanding due to their immense
role and therapeutic efficacy with minimum side effects.
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Neurotransmitters, Serotonin, Anxiety, Anxiolytic plants.
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2019.11.04.086
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