Preferred Name

Central Nervous System Agents
Synonyms

Central Nervous System Drugs

CNS Affecting Drugs

CNS Agent

centrally acting drugs

Central nervous system agent

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM MEDICATIONS

CNS drug

SECTION 6 CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AGENTS

Definitions

A class of drugs producing both physiological and psychological effects through a variety of mechanisms. They can be divided into 'specific' agents, e.g., affecting an identifiable molecular mechanism unique to target cells bearing receptors for that agent, and 'nonspecific' agents, those producing effects on different target cells and acting by diverse molecular mechanisms. Those with nonspecific mechanisms are generally further classed according to whether they produce behavioral depression or (source : MSH)

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CNS Affecting Drugs

CNS Agent

centrally acting drugs

Central nervous system agent

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM MEDICATIONS

CNS drug

SECTION 6 CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AGENTS

definition

A class of drugs producing both physiological and psychological effects through a variety of mechanisms. They can be divided into 'specific' agents, e.g., affecting an identifiable molecular mechanism unique to target cells bearing receptors for that agent, and 'nonspecific' agents, those producing effects on different target cells and acting by diverse molecular mechanisms. Those with nonspecific mechanisms are generally further classed according to whether they produce behavioral depression or (source : MSH)

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