Secobarbital. Sebar . Secobarbital Sodium . Seconal . Seconal Sodium . Sodium, Secobarbital . Meballymal . Quinalbarbitone . A barbiturate that is used as a sedative. Secobarbital is reported to have no anti-anxiety activity. . 0.67
Phenobarbital. Gardenal . Hysteps . Luminal . Phenobarbital Sodium . Phenobarbital, Monosodium Salt . Phenylethylbarbituric Acid . Acid, Phenylethylbarbituric . Monosodium Salt Phenobarbital . Sodium, Phenobarbital . Phenemal . Phenobarbitone . Phenylbarbital . A barbituric acid derivative that acts as a nonselective central nervous system depressant. It potentiates GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID action on GABA-A RECEPTORS, and modulates chloride currents through receptor channels. It also inhibits glutamate induced depolarizations. . 0.65
Pentobarbital. Diabutal . Etaminal . Ethaminal . Nembutal . Pentobarbital Sodium . Pentobarbital, Monosodium Salt . Pentobarbitone . Sagatal . Monosodium Salt Pentobarbital . Mebubarbital . Mebumal . A short-acting barbiturate that is effective as a sedative and hypnotic (but not as an anti-anxiety) agent and is usually given orally. It is prescribed more frequently for sleep induction than for sedation but, like similar agents, may lose its effectiveness by the second week of continued administration. (From AMA Drug Evaluations Annual, 1994, p236) . 0.65