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Some Salient Clinical Findings from the Use of Benzodiazepines in Childhood and Adolescence

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Several factors have given impetus to the great advances that we have witnessed in the field of psychopharmacology. As Silverstone wrote, ‘one of the most significant factors which have promoted recent progress, has been the continuing dialogue conducted between laboratory-based research workers, probing into the ways psychotropic drugs interact with neurotransmitter systems in the brain, and clinical psychiatrists evaluating in patients the way these same drugs alter the symptoms and signs of mental illness’17.

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    U. Vianna Filho (Professor of Psychiatry, President) (Professor of Psychiatry, President)

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Jacobides, G.M. (1980). Some Salient Clinical Findings from the Use of Benzodiazepines in Childhood and Adolescence. In: Priest, R.G., Filho, U.V., Amrein, R., Skreta, M. (eds) Benzodiazepines. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7238-7_14

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