The medicine farmapram (alprazolam)
PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTION Anxiolytic medicine (tranquilizer) of the group of benzodiazepines of medium duration of action, also has sedative-hypnotic effect. Farmapram enhances inhibitory effects of endogenous GABA (mediator of pre- and postsynaptic inhibition in the CNS). Stimulates benzodiazepine receptors located in allosteric center of postsynaptic GABA receptors of ascending activating reticular formation of brain stem and