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A "typical" benzodiazepine has a standard chemical structure of a benzene and a diazepine ring fused with other chemical strucures fuzed to this ring at a certain place (usually they're called 1,4 Benzodiazepines). Atypical benzodiazepines include the thiobenzodiazepine Olanzapine (Zyprexa) as well as drugs that are pharmacologically very similar to 1, 4 Benzodieazepines (ex: Clobazam aka ONFI). Onfi has a slight variation in chemical structure but produces anticonvulsant and anxiolytic effects. Zyprexa has a significantly different pharmacological effect (it's an antipsychotic).

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