PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Central Nervous System (CNS) depressants are medicines that include sedatives, tranquilizers, and hypnotics. These drugs can slow brain activity, making them useful for treating anxiety, panic, acute stress reactions, and sleep disorders.

Detailed explanation-2: -Central Nervous System (CNS) depressants are medicines that include sedatives, tranquilizers, and hypnotics. Sedatives primarily include barbiturates (e.g., phenobarbitol) but also include non-benzodiazepine sedative hypnotics such as Ambien® and Lunesta®.

Detailed explanation-3: -depressants Drugs that slow down the body’s functions and reactions, including heart and breathing rates. Depressants can affect a person mentally and emotionally by giving a false sense of well-being through reduced anxiety and relaxation. Examples of depressants include tranquilizers, barbiturates, and alcohol.

Detailed explanation-4: -A depressant, or central depressant, is a drug that lowers neurotransmission levels, which is to depress or reduce arousal or stimulation, in various areas of the brain. Depressants are also colloquially referred to as downers as they lower the level of arousal when taken.

Detailed explanation-5: -CNS depressants slow down the operations of the brain and the body. Examples of CNS depressants include alcohol, barbiturates, anti-anxiety tranquilizers (e.g., Valium, Librium, Xanax, Prozac, and Thorazine), GHB (gamma hydroxybutyrate), Rohypnol, and many other anti-depressants (e.g., Zoloft, Paxil).