Framing anti-depressant action

Selective Depressant Action

The depressant action of antidromic volleys of impulses on gustatory nerve signals from the tongues of bullfrogs was studied. Electrical stimulation of the glossopharyngeal nerve at a rate of 100 Hz for 10 s and at supramaximal intensity slightly depressed the integrated glossopharyngeal nerve responses to quinine and to mechanical taps to the tongue . The same antidromic stimuli resulted in a ...

Depressant action of averrhoa carambola.

PREPARATIONS of Averrhoa carambola (star fruit) have been used in an attempt to treat ailments of several different types both by bornohs (the Malay medicine men) and by traditional Chinese herbalists. Among these ailments for which star fruit preparations have been 'prescribed" are headache, vomiting, coughing and restlessness (Burkhill, 1935 : Woei,1970). This paper describes an attempt to de...

Tricyclic Anti-depressant Induced Mania

The authors report four cases of Monopolar Depressed patients who developed manic features for the first time while on tricyclic antidepressant therapy. The phenomenon is viewed as tricyclic antidepressant induced mania. The manic symptoms occurred late in therapy, with moderate doses of tricyclic antidepressants (125-150 mg per day) and were easily controlled with antipsychotic medication. Fac...

Framing joint action

Many philosophers have offered accounts of shared actions aimed at capturing what makes joint actions intentionally joint. I first discuss two leading accounts of shared intentions, proposed by Michael Bratman and Margaret Gilbert. I argue that Gilbert's account imposes more normativity on shared intentions than is strictly needed and that Bratman's account requires too much cognitive sophistic...

"Framing Affirmative Action"