Diazepam is a long-acting benzodiazepine with rapid onset commonly used to treat panic disorders, severe anxiety, alcohol withdrawal, and seizures. A benzodiazepine with anticonvulsant, anxiolytic, sedative, muscle relaxant, and amnesic properties and a long duration of action.
- Mechanism
- Curator reviewed · 9 references
Diazepam is a benzodiazepine tranquilliser with anticonvulsant, sedative, muscle relaxant and amnesic properties.
Benzodiazepines, such as diazepam, bind to receptors in various regions of the brain and spinal cord. This binding increases the inhibitory effects of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). GABAs functions include CNS involvement in sleep induction. Also involved in the control of hypnosis, memory, anxiety, epilepsy and neuronal excitability.
- Primary indication
- In general, diazepam is useful in the symptomatic management of mild to moderate degrees of anxiety in conditions dominated by tension, excitation, agitation, fear, or aggressiveness such as may occur in psychoneurosis, anxiety reactions due...Curator reviewed · 34 structured indications
- Formula / weight
- C16H13ClN2O · 284.74 g/mol (avg)
- First approval
- Canada, 1997 · United States, 1963
- Also known as
- Methyl diazepinone
- Code names
- NSC-169897 · NSC-77518 · RO 5-2807 · WY-3467
- Brand names
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