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Re: Good news: Dov's ocinaplon in phase III

Posted by pseudonym on November 24, 2004, at 16:25:20

In reply to Re: Good news: Dov's ocinaplon in phase III, posted by KaraS on November 24, 2004, at 15:49:29

You are cetainly correct regarding the promotion of Buspar. Yet never, in any test I have heard or read, was Buspar shown it be as effective an anxiolytic as Valium. The same goes for the SSRIs, now that I think of it. Ocinaplon is consistently shown to be more effective an anxiolytic than Valium at doses which do not induce sedation, muscle incoordination, and amnesia. Also, there is a completely different mechanism of action between buspar and ocinaplon. Ocinaplon targets the GABA-A receptor subtypes which are anxiolytic, and does not target those which are responsible for sedation and amnesia. You can think of ocinaplon as benzo- (benzo minus), in that it targets the GABA-A "anxiety receptors", not each and every GABA-A receptor, like all current benzos.


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