PSYC62H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Lethal Dose, Prescription Drug, Ed50
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Psychopharmacology: is the study of how drugs affect mood, perception, thinking, or behaviour. Drugs that achieve these effects by acting in the nervous system are called psychoactive drugs: drugs that affect mood, perception, thinking or behaviour by acting in the nervous system. The term psychopharmacology encompasses two large fields: psychology & pharmacology. Psychopharmacology attempts to relate the actions and effects of drugs to issues in psychology. A psychopharmacologists must know how the ns functions and how psychoactive drugs alter nervous system functioning. Behavioural pharmacology it is usually considered synonymous with psychopharmacology, some limit the term behavioural pharmacology to the psychology subfield of behaviour analysis. Drugs serve as behaviourally controlling stimuli just like other stimuli in behaviour analytic models. Neuropsychopharmacology the neuro prefix represents the nervous system. The neuropsychopharmacology field has a certain emphasis on the nervous system actions of drugs. More than 100 million antidepressant drug prescriptions are written every year. prescribed every year.
