Sunday 13 March 2011

Pharmacology of CNS drugs

INTRODUCTION
Drugs acting in the central nervous system (CNS) were among the first to be discovered by primitive humans and are still the most widely used group of pharmacological agents.
The mechanisms by which various drugs act in the CNS have not always been clearly understood. In the last three decades, however, dramatic advances have been made in the methodology of CNS pharmacology.

[In my next posts I will discuss ion channels, neurotransmitters, synapse and synaptic potential and cellular organization of brain.]

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