Bipolar disorder involves recurring episodes of mania or hypomania and depression that significantly affect mood, energy, sleep, and daily functioning. Effective management usually relies on mood stabilizers, atypical antipsychotics, psychotherapy, and careful long-term monitoring. In recent years some online discussions have asked whether ibogaine, a psychoactive alkaloid derived from the West African shrub Tabernanthe iboga, […]
Barbiturates in Emergency and Critical Care: A Historical and Modern Perspective. Hospital emergency departments and intensive care units once relied heavily on a class of drugs that could rapidly quiet the brain and body. Barbiturates, introduced in the early twentieth century, became standard tools for inducing anesthesia, controlling severe seizures, and managing elevated pressure inside […]
Barbiturates in Emergency and Critical Care, Hospital emergency departments and intensive care units once relied heavily on a class of drugs that could rapidly quiet the brain and body. Barbiturates, introduced in the early twentieth century, became standard tools for inducing anesthesia, controlling severe seizures, and managing elevated pressure inside the skull. Over subsequent decades, […]