Central Nervous System Depressants
"Central Nervous System Depressants" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A very loosely defined group of drugs that tend to reduce the activity of the central nervous system. The major groups included here are ethyl alcohol, anesthetics, hypnotics and sedatives, narcotics, and tranquilizing agents (antipsychotics and antianxiety agents).
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D002492
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MeSH Number(s) |
D27.505.696.277 D27.505.954.427.210
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1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2000 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
2004 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2011 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Central Nervous System Depressants" by people in Profiles.
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Tschumi CW, Daszkowski AW, Sharpe AL, Trzeciak M, Beckstead MJ. A history of ethanol drinking increases locomotor stimulation and blunts enhancement of dendritic dopamine transmission by methamphetamine. Addict Biol. 2020 07; 25(4):e12763.
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Peters EN, Herrmann ES, Cohn AM, Coleman-Cowger VH, Smith C, Koszowski B, Pickworth WB. How Will Alcohol Research be Impacted by Future Reduction in Nicotine Content in Cigarettes? Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2018 11; 42(11):2090-2093.
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Lu Y, Ward SC, Nieto N. Ethanol plus the Jo2 Fas agonistic antibody-induced liver injury is attenuated in mice with partial ablation of argininosuccinate synthase. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2014 Mar; 38(3):649-56.
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Cohn AM, Cameron AY, Udo T, Hagman BT, Mitchell J, Bramm S, Ehlke S. Delineating potential mechanisms of implicit alcohol cognitions: drinking restraint, negative affect, and their relationship with approach alcohol associations. Psychol Addict Behav. 2012 Jun; 26(2):318-24.
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Balachova T, Bonner B, Chaffin M, Bard D, Isurina G, Tsvetkova L, Volkova E. Women's alcohol consumption and risk for alcohol-exposed pregnancies in Russia. Addiction. 2012 Jan; 107(1):109-17.
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Lemon CH, Wilson DM, Brasser SM. Differential neural representation of oral ethanol by central taste-sensitive neurons in ethanol-preferring and genetically heterogeneous rats. J Neurophysiol. 2011 Dec; 106(6):3145-56.
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Salloum JB, Ramchandani VA, Bodurka J, Rawlings R, Momenan R, George D, Hommer DW. Blunted rostral anterior cingulate response during a simplified decoding task of negative emotional facial expressions in alcoholic patients. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2007 Sep; 31(9):1490-504.
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Roebuck-Spencer TM, Mattson SN, Marion SD, Brown WS, Riley EP. Bimanual coordination in alcohol-exposed children: role of the corpus callosum. J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2004 Jul; 10(4):536-48.
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Palmer AA, Sharpe AL, Burkhart-Kasch S, McKinnon CS, Coste SC, Stenzel-Poore MP, Phillips TJ. Corticotropin-releasing factor overexpression decreases ethanol drinking and increases sensitivity to the sedative effects of ethanol. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2004 Nov; 176(3-4):386-97.
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Spitzer JH, Núñez NP, Meadows SA, Gallucci RM, Blank SE, Meadows GG. The modulation of B16BL6 melanoma metastasis is not directly mediated by cytolytic activity of natural killer cells in alcohol-consuming mice. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2000 Jun; 24(6):837-44.