Chemistry · Ch 16 — Chemistry in Everyday Life
Neurologically Active Drugs
16.3.3
Neurologically Active Drugs
Neurologically Active Drugs: Interfering with Nerve-to-Receptor Signalling
Neurologically active drugs are a broad class of substances that act by affecting the mechanism by which a message is transferred from a nerve cell to its receptor. Two important sub-types of this class - tranquilizers, which manage anxiety and mental illness, and analgesics, which manage pain - are developed separately in the two sub-sections that follow, each acting throu …