am·o·bar·bi·tal

(ăm′ō-bär′bĭ-tăl′, -bĭ-tôl′)

A barbiturate, C₁₁H₁₈N₂O₃, used as a sedative and a hypnotic.

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amobarbital

(ˌæməʊˈbɑːbɪtəl; ˌeɪməʊ-)

(Pharmacology) pharmacol a drug with sedative, hypnotic, and analgesic properties used to relieve insomnia and control convulsions

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am•o•bar•bi•tal

(ˌæm oʊˈbɑr bɪˌtæl, -ˌtɔl)

n.

a colorless, crystalline barbiturate, C₁₁H₁₈N₂O₃, used chiefly as a sedative.

[1945–50; am (yl) + -o- + barbital]

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Noun

amobarbital - a barbiturate with sedative and hypnotic effects; used to relieve insomnia and as an anticonvulsant

amobarbital sodium, Amytal, blue angel, blue devil, blue - the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic

barbiturate - organic compound having powerful soporific effect; overdose can be fatal

truth drug, truth serum - an intravenous anesthetic drug that has a hypnotic effect; induces relaxation and weakens inhibitions; is believed to induce people to talk freely

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Since the first reported improvement of catatonia with amobarbital in 1930, (6) there have been no controlled studies of specific treatments of catatonia.

Catatonia: How to identify and treat it: Features that overlap with other syndromes make the diagnosis easy to overlook

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In epileptic patients with drug refractory seizures who underwent intracarotid amobarbital injections (wada test), it was noticed sympathetic tonus predominance in the right hemisphere and parasympathetic predominance and up-regulation of baroreceptor sensitivity in the left hemisphere [28].

Cortical lateralization and cardiac autonomic control. Insights from insular stroke and epilepsy

Evidence for this begins in neuropsychological case studies, which have identified people who had recovered at least partially from aphasia following left hemisphere stroke and then redeveloped aphasia after a later right hemisphere disruption, whether due to intracarotid amobarbital injection or a second stroke [4548].

Right Hemisphere Remapping of Naming Functions Depends on Lesion Size and Location in Poststroke Aphasia

The intracarotid injection of amobarbital (Wada test) has mostly been replaced by functional MRI, which offers a non-invasive way to determine lateralisation of functions such as speech and memory.

Surgical management of epilepsy

Fueron pocos los antidepresivos y ansioliticos suministrados, solo 5 casos (4%): amitriptilina (Mutabon) a 2 pacientes y de forma individual nialamida (Niamid), compuesto de dextroanfetamina y amobarbital (Dexamil), dimetil imipramina (Pertofrane) e imipramina (Toframil).

Caracterizacion sociodemografica, psicopatologica y terapeutica en la primera decada de servicio (1958-1968) del Hospital Psiquiatrico San Isidro del Valle del Cauca

Individual patient prediction of seizure lateralization in temporal lobe epilepsy: A comparison between neuropsychological memory mesures and the Intracarotid Amobarbital Procedure.

Alternative versions of the logical memory subtest of the WMS-R: performance analyses of a healthy sample from the city of Sao Paulo/Versoes alternativas do subteste memoria logica da WMS-R: analise de desempenho de uma amostra saudavel da cidade de Sao Paulo

24-36 hours after the final session of chronic exercise or 8-16 hours after acute exercise, all rats were anesthetized by single dose intraperitoneal injection of amobarbital (15 mg/kg).

Effects of acute exercise and chronic exercise on the liver leptin-AMPK-ACC signaling pathway in rats with type 2 diabetes

Under anesthesia with sodium amobarbital, pancreases were distended with 2.5 mL of RPMI-1640 medium (GIBCO BRL, Grand Island, NY, USA) containing 1.5mg/mL of collagenase (collagenase from Clostridium histolyticum, type XI, Sigma Immunochemicals), excised, and incubated in a water bath at 37[degrees]C.

Effects of dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibition with MK-0431 on syngeneic mouse islet transplantation

Dichotic-listening performance and intracarotid injections of amobarbital in children and adolescents.

Lateralidad del lenguaje, preferencia manual y empatia en una muestra de padres de ninos con trastorno de espectro autista