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The prospect of new anxiolytic principles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

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Novel anxiolytics notwithstanding, in the latest fifteen years there have been no major innovations in the treatment of anxiety disorders. Fascinating research is going on, but real breakthroughs will require adequate models of disease, based on the disordered physiology of each type of pathological anxiety. In this brief overview, we will address both the field of potential anxiolytics in 1997, and the development of new experimental models of anxiety disorders.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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