ATC Group: N03AE Benzodiazepine derivatives

The World Health Organization's ATC classification organizes medical drugs based on therapeutic properties, chemical composition, and anatomy. It helps make essential medicines readily available globally and is widely used in the pharmaceutical industry.

Position of N03AE in the ATC hierarchy

Level Code Title
1 N Nervous system
2 N03 Antiepileptics
3 N03A Antiepileptics
4 N03AE Benzodiazepine derivatives

Group N03AE contents

Code Title
N03AE01 Clonazepam

Active ingredients in N03AE

Active Ingredient Description
Clonazepam

Clonazepam exhibits pharmacological properties which are common to benzodiazepines and include anticonvulsive, sedative, muscle relaxing and anxiolytic effects. Animal data and electroencephalographic investigations in man have shown that clonazepam rapidly suppresses many types of paroxysmal activity including the spike and wave discharge in absence seizures (petit mal), slow spike wave, generalised spike wave, spikes with temporal or other locations as well as irregular spikes and waves.

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