Category: N

Refers to the effects on cognition and behavior of antipsychotic drugs that reduce confusion, delusions, hallucinations, and psychomotor agitation in patients with psychoses. An older term for the first antipsychotic medications, such as chlorpromazine, which produced notable psychomotor retardation, apathy, and emotional detachment. With the introduction of newer atypical antipsychotic drugs with less propensity to…

A common extracranial cancer that forms in nerve tissues, common in infancy. A malignant tumour formed from the neural crest, found mainly in young children. Malignant tumor containing embryonic nerve cells; it most commonly develops in the adrenal medulla in children, but may arise in any part of the sympathetic nervous system. Neuroblastomas typically metastasize…

The first step of neuronal differentiation, takes place as nascent neurites bud from the immediate postmitotic neuronal soma.  

Refers to any projection from the cell body of a neuron.  

A substance used to treat nerve pain and/or weakness (i.e. neuralgia, sciatica, etc). A person affected by neurasthenia.  

A condition with symptoms of fatigue, anxiety, headache, impotence, neuralgia and impotence. A disorder in ICD-10, characterized by persisting complaints of mental or physical fatigue or weakness after performing daily activities and inability to recover with normal periods of rest or entertainment. Typical SYMPTOMS include muscular aches and pains, dizziness, tension headaches, sleep disturbance, and…

A class of antiviral drugs targeted at the influenza viruses whose mode of action consists of blocking the function of the viral neuraminidase protein, thus preventing the virus from reproducing.  

A nerve tonic that acts therapeutically upon the nerves, particularly in the sense of a sedative that serves to calm ruffled nerves. Restores the nerves, relaxes the nervous system. A substance that acts upon the nerves; particularly to calm the nerves. A tonic herb the strengthens the nerves. An agent that affects, strengthens, or calms…

A small protein that induces the differentiation and survival of particular target neurons (nerve cells). A protein produced by the salivary glands (and also in tumors) that greatly increases growth/reproduction of nerve cells and guides the formation of neural networks. In the brain, NGF is thought to increase the production of the messenger chemical, acetylchoHne,…

Poisonous effect of some substances, both toxic chemicals and medication, on the kidney. A substance that is toxic to the kidney.