Talk:Propranolol

message: Replaced the phrasing "insertion of an aryloxy bridge" with "insertion of an oxymethylene group", as the former would seem to be obviously incorrect. Comparing propanolol with earlier attempts at beta blockers there is clearly no new or additional aryl group in propanolol, rather there is the insertion of -OCH2- between the naphthyl group and the (2-(alkylamino)ethanol) group. Thus "insertion of aryl[anything]" is self-evidently false.  Unless I'm unaware of some historical - yet unfortunate - med. chem. terminology.    — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.202.140.109 (talk) 10:51, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  structural chemistry of the beta-blockers 

message: In the UK anyway, propanolol is very often prescribed to patients suffering from social phobia or social anxiety disorder. Maybe this should be added to the article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.13.65.217 (talk) 19:59, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Social Anxiety disorder 

message: Moved from article:
This is sometimes used, along with antipsychotics, in treating schizophrenia.
Is it really? Propranolol is indeed effective against tremor, but I have never heard of any psychiatric use. Kosebamse 12:51, 27 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moved 

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message: I added a note indicating that propranolol is occasionally used in the treatment of anxiety, but it has been removed.  Why?  I myself use the drug for such a purpose (prescribed) and I find it to be quite effective.  It seems odd that the article now has absolutely no mention of this application of the drug, and a bit offensive, considering the fact that I added such a mention some time ago.
Rev. Neil
Wait..."Control of tachycardia/tremor associated with anxiety..."  That does touch on it, but perhaps this could be elaborated upon somewhat.
Rev. Neil
: Well I'm definitely no expert, but propranolol was once suggested to me to treat some symptoms of anxiety (I had to decline for other medical reasons.) As I understood it, non-selective beta blockers are pretty much a "universal" muscle relaxant. I know I feel less anxiety when muscles from the diaphragm up to my shoulders are relaxed. Makes breathing easier etc. (Please delete/edit this as you wish. Just some ideas for  Rev. Neil... :) Jedku (talk) 11:14, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use as a treatment for anxiety 

message: Propranolol only seems to affect the amygdala, which controls learned fear responses.  It doesn't affect your memories at all, just the anxiety reaction to them.
Anyone know for certain about this?  I plan on using it, as I'm sure millions of others will rush to do now also.
Dream Focus 03:21, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It affects adrenaline, which is necessary for the fear memories to form in the amygdala.  You have to take it when the event happens to you.  It doesn't work on long time anxiety sufferers like myself.  Worth mentioning is how cheap it is.  I got Propranolol and Celexa at Walmart, one of them two dollars and the other four dollars.  I forget which was which, but very cheap, since they are both out of patent and generics abound.
Dream Focus 08:23, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not convinced that it only affects adrenaline. Anyway, doesn't it affect the receptors, not adrenaline, which is different and could turn out to have other consequences. Recent research seems to be concluding that every time we remember something we remove the emotional memory and then restore it, which fits with the idea of catharsis in therapy. Post-traumatic stress disorder is being treated by getting patients to recall events with the emotion while taking propranolol, so it would be expected to work on anxiety resulting from old traumas as well as current events. There is much reference to propranolol as inhibiting conscience and guilt, and I would not be surprised if there was more to discover here. My personal suspicion is that people I have known have changed subtly in personality while on propranolol, and a friend described how, looking back, he had a different attitude to people, about which he was now unhappy. Read the links I added under the new section on conscience etc where it is being suggested that propranalol could alter the fabric of society on which all our interactions are based. --Memestream (talk) 10:35, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  It appears to only affect the amygdala  

message: Here's a new link with information regarding possible use for military PTSD sufferers:
http://www.military.com/veterans-report/drug-hopes-to-treat-veterans-trauma?ESRC=vr.nl
Ricojonah 21:58, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent News: Will U.S. Military use it for PTSD? 

message: I fail to see the evidence for propranolol provoking type 2 diabetes. The given sources certainly don't do it..  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.112.192.38 (talk) 15:39, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Type 2 diabetes 

message: given that it has now caused someone to be stripped of an olympic medal, can someone tell us why it is banned- what it does that is so good for sportspeople.IceDragon64 (talk) 17:21, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Banned in Sport 

message: I changed the blatently incorrect drug name in the first paragraph "Avlocardyl mentally handicapped" to the correct name "Avlocardyl Retard", but this change was quickly undone and deemed to be 'unconstructive'. The phrase "retard" in drug names is used to denote a longer or 'retarded' duration of release of the drug, and has absolutly nothing to do with the phrase 'mentally handicapped'.  I feel that leaving this drug with the phrase 'mentally handicapped' after it is entirely misleading and a blatant error.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.44.18.174 (talk) 00:45, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Avlocardyl drug name 

message: Apparently accused killer Lynn Turner committed suicide by taking an overdose of Proprandol.  See: http://www.ajc.com/news/cobb/lynn-turners-death-ruled-614092.html?cxntlid=cmg_cntnt_rss  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.221.224.5 (talk) 17:31, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent News: Suicide by Proprandolol 

message: How is propranalol secreted?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.194.36.193 (talk) 12:23, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Secretion of Propranalol 

message: i want to khnow what is the absorption wavelenght in uv for some drugs as prppranolol  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maryamabi (talk • contribs) 12:36, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  prppranolol 

message: The WSJ link provided by the ip editor does not mention propranolol. Just because an author has gotten some recent press does not mean we put every mention of their plot devices in medical articles. This reference, to me, does not seem to ne particularly notable, so I have removed it, but if someone can demonstrate otherwise, here would be the place to discuss it before replacing it in the article. -- [ UseTheCommandLine ~/talk ]# ▄ 16:19, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hewey's "wool" 

message: I removed the following from the article:
"many psychologists think racist feelings are driven by the fear center"
The statement wasn't referenced, and is factually incorrect. It's not possible to know what brain regions generate a thought or feeling, only to know what brain regions are associated with it. The actual cause may be different.
Stjep (talk) 18:09, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Amygdala + racism 

message: Ball-and-stick shows two joined rings with one hydrogen per carbon. The structural diagram shows two double bonds on the first ring rather than three. I think that's probably the mistake (the double bonds should be rotated one place and one more added). Or I could be misreading it altogether.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.109.144.96 (talk) 01:32, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The images are resonance structures, each accurately and equivalently depicting the same chemical compound.  The diagram :File:Benzene_delocalization.svg shows the equivalence in the simplest case, benzene.  -- Ed (Edgar181) 13:22, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Structural and ball-and-stick diagrams disagree? 

message: Drug addicts use the jargon "soprano lol" because they get it easier.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:587:4100:1D00:C1B9:9BD3:2349:642 (talk) 23:13, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ways to remember it 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: "Propranolol is not recommended for the treatment of hypertension by the Eighth Joint National Committee (JNC 8) because a higher rate of the primary composite outcome of cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, or stroke compared to an angiotensin receptor blocker was noted in one study.[12]"
Reference 12 does not specifically mention propranolol but just beta blockers in general and the study that decision was based on (Lancet. 2002 Mar 23;359(9311):995-1003.
Cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in the Losartan Intervention For Endpoint reduction in hypertension study (LIFE): a randomised trial against atenolol.) didn't compare to propranolol, it compared to atenolol.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.69.123.10 (talk) 21:13, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect info in Medical Uses/Cardiovascular 

message: This drug has been noted in the press as an experimental treatment for racism and bias. For example  and . -- Beland (talk) 03:44, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Treatment of racism and bias