Naturally Occurring Benzodiazepines, Endozepines, and Their Receptors
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Understanding and addressing the current opioid crisis requires knowledge of the endogenous opioids (endorphins and enkephalins), but there is now evidence for a benzodiazepine crisis. Are there endogenous benzodiazepine-like substances - and what do they do? How do they affect the anti-anxiety drugs and their adverse effects?

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Understanding and addressing the current opioid crisis requires knowledge of the endogenous opioids (endorphins and enkephalins), but there is now evidence for a benzodiazepine crisis. Are there endogenous benzodiazepine-like substances - and what do they do? How do they affect the anti-anxiety drugs and their adverse effects?
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Dr. Raffa is Adjunct Professor at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy and Professor Emeritus at Temple University School of Pharmacy. He earned bachelor's degrees in Chemical Engineering and in Physiological Psychology (both from the University of Delaware), master's degrees in Biomedical Engineering (from Drexel University) and Toxicology (Thomas Jefferson University), and a doctorate in Pharmacology (Temple University School of Medicine). He was a Research Fellow and a Team Co-Leader for drug discovery at Johnson & Johnson. He is a cofounder of CaRafe Drug Innovation and Enalare Therapeutics, and is CSO of Neumentum Inc. He is co-holder of several patents and has published more than 350 papers. He has co-authored or edited several books on pharmacology and thermodynamics, is a Co-Editor of two journals, is a past president of the Mid-Atlantic Pharmacology Society and is the recipient of research and teaching awards. Dr. Amantea is Associate Professor of Pharmacology at the Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences of the University of Calabria (Italy), where she is the leader of the Stroke Research Unit at the Section of Preclinical and Translational Pharmacology operating in the frame of the Italian Stroke Organization (ISO) Basic Science. She earned a PharmD cum laude from the University of Calabria in 1998 and a PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Birmingham (UK) in 2003. She continued her postdoctoral activity at the Department of Pharmacology of the Medical School of Birmingham University where, under the guidance of Prof. Norman G. Bowery, she worked on the involvement of GABAB receptors in neurological disorders. During her formative years, she was visiting researcher at respected research laboratories of the Universities of Madrid, Lausanne, Florence and Rome. She published more than 60 papers on peer-reviewed journals. She is member of the Editorial Board and Guest Editor of the 2016 Neuroscience section of Current Opinion in Pharmacology (Elsevier), Founder and editor of "Frontiers in Neurotherapeutics" series (CRC press).