How It Works
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- Diazepam can be used to treat anxiety and seizure disorders temporarily.
- Diazepam works on nerve cells to reduce aberrant brain electrical activity.
- Diazepam has calming and sedative properties and can be used to treat anxiety, as a muscle relaxant, as an anticonvulsant, or for its sedative effects.
- Although experts are unsure of the specific mechanism by which diazepam exerts its effects, they think it does so by tightly binding to the GABA-benzodiazepine receptor complex, increasing the affinity for GABA (a neurotransmitter that blocks impulses between nerve cells in the brain). Anxiety, mood problems, seizure disorders, and pain have all been connected to low GABA levels.
- The group of drugs known as benzodiazepines includes diazepam.
