Nosospecific anxiety and a spectrum of anxiolytic activity of psychotropic drugs

The article discusses the pathogenetic mechanisms of anxiety in different psychiatric disorders. The influence of anxiety on the course, pharmacotherapeutic treatment with respect to the pathogenesis and the possible neurochemical imbalance in the definite type of anxiety are discussed. An anti-anxiety effect in the action of psychotropic drugs is described. It is proposed that neurochemical disturbances are not the same with the various types of anxiety, which requires using drugs from various groups to achieve treatment of the symptom on the pathogenetic level. The various roles of anxiety in the course of different mental disorders is suggested.