DRUGS AFFECTING THE PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM

Drugs Affecting the Central Nervous System

24. Introduction to Central Nervous System Pharmacology 281 Charles R. Craig 25.General Anesthesia: Intravenous and Inhalational Agents 291 David J. Smith and Michael B. Howie 26.Opioid and Nonopioid Analgesics 310 Sandra P. Welch and Billy R. Martin 27.Local Anesthetics 330 J. David Haddox 28.Agents Affecting Neuromuscular Transmission 338 Michael D. Miyamoto 29.Central Nervous System Stimulan...

Drugs Affecting the Autonomic Nervous System 83 General Organization and Functions of the Nervous System

Electrodiagnostic study of peripheral nervous system in Behcet’s disease

Introduction: Bechcet’s disease (BD) is a chronic disease with multiple organ involvement such as central nervous system (CNS) and peripheral nervous system (PNS). Involvement of PNS has been reported controversially and uncommon in textbooks and literatures. The aim of this study in to evaluate the auxiliary role of electrodiagnosis in early detection of PNS involvement to prevent neuropathy...

O 30: Peripheral Nervous System Diseases and Inflammation

Inflammatory neuropathies may be due to infection (with a specific casual agent identified) including Lyme disease, HIV, Leprosy, Herpes Zoster, Hepatitis B & C. The other group of are Autoimmune or possibly infectious (but with no specific causal infectious agent identified) including sarcoidosis, Guillain-Barre syndrome/ acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy ( AIDP), chronic in...

NMDA Antagonists and Tolerance to Drugs Affecting the Central Nervous System

Tolerance is usually defined as a reduction in the effects for the drug in question such that a higher dose (or blood concentration) of the drug is required to produce the same degree of effects as seen previously in the drug-naive individual. Tolerance is a complex phenomenon that develops as a result of adaptation of the organism to the presence of drugs in certain circumstances and can devel...