CAS PS 473 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Nasal Congestion, Nefazodone, Urinary Retention
28 May 2019
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Psychopharmacology: anti-depressants/mood drugs, serzone, wellbutrin- makes you feel more energized, also used for quitting smoking, combines more than serotonin and norepi, lithium- not an antidepressant but a mood stabilizer. Good for bipolar disorder so that given in conjunction with anti-depressants so that you control manic episodes and depressive. If you give anti-depressant alone, you could make mania worse. Lithium increases wbc and can be toxic so need to monitor: depakote- anti epileptic, stops electrical activity. Link between bipolar and epilepsy because mania associated with high brain activity: don"t work quickly, not good for abuse because they don"t get high. Lot of anticholinergic effects- side effects of a lot of drugs, dry mouth, constipation, urinary retention, nasal congestion: anti-psychotic-thorazine, haldol, geodome, clozapine doesn"t have as much tardive dyskinesia. A lot of these were initially antihistamines so it would sedate people like thorazine: sedatives and anxiolytics, more probable of drug abuse.
