The<unk> s are positive allosteric modulators of the GABA-A receptor. Like the benzodiazepines, they exert their effects by binding to and activating the benzodiazepine site of the receptor complex. Many of these compounds are subtype selective providing novel anxiolytics with little to no hypnotic and amnesiac effects and novel hypnotics with little or no anxiolytic effects.
Nonbenzodiazepine
Amphetamine type stimulant
Substituted tryptamine
Substituted amphetamine
Antipsychotic ester
Substituted phenethylamine
Heteroecious
Synthetic cannabinoids