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• s  (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate

• Everything good is excitatory; everything inhibitory (in the Freudian jargon, repression) is badit deprives a man of self-confidence.
• In later work, which got little attention in the West, Pavlov sought to prove that dogs are of four temperamental types, "strong excitatory," "lively," "calm imperturbable, or .
• Without a proper chemical check on excitatory messages set off by drugs, the brain never appreciates that it's been satiated.

• excitant
• excitative

News & Articles

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• Low doses of antianxiety drugs rebalance autistic brain, study shows
  New research in mice suggests that autism is characterized by reduced activity of inhibitory neurons and increased activity of excitatory neurons in the brain, but balance can be restored with low doses of a well-known class of drugs currently used in much higher doses to treat anxiety and epileptic seizures. The findings point to a new therapeutic approach to managing autism.
  March 19, 2014 - Science Daily
• Low doses of antianxiety drugs rebalance the autistic brain
  ( Cell Press ) New research in mice suggests that autism is characterized by reduced activity of inhibitory neurons and increased activity of excitatory neurons in the brain, but balance can be restored with low doses of a well-known class of drugs currently used in much higher doses to treat anxiety and epileptic seizures. The findings, which are reported in the March 19 issue of the Cell Press ...
  March 19, 2014 - EurekAlert!