Research Seeks to Separate Basis of Benefits from that of Addiction and Other Side Effects
Popular drugs prescribed to ease debilitating anxiety in people and to restore a good night’s sleep gave monkeys a serious case of the munchies, report researchers at the New England Primate Research Center.
The study may help explain the longstanding complaint of weight gain in patients who take the drugs. It also supports experimental evidence of increased food consumption in other animals and primates given the same drugs.
FOCUS | July 14, 2006 | PSYCHOBIOLOGY: Molecular Action of Popular Antianxiety Drugs Probed
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