PSYC62H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Boogie 2Nite, Behaviorism, Pharmacology
13 Jun 2016
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Psychopharmacology is the study of how drugs affect mood, perception, thinking, or behaviour. Drugs that achieve these effects are called psychoactive drugs. Psychoactive drugs drugs that affect mood, perception, thinking, or behaviour by acting in the nervous system. A psychopharmacologist must know how the nervous system functions and how psychoactive drugs alter nervous system functioning. Behavioural pharmacology is interchangeable with psychopharmacology, however it is restricted to behaviour analysis: drugs serve as behaviour controlling stimuli. Secondly, stats prove how nearly all of us are consumers of psychoactive substances. Greater knowledge of psychoactive substances improves patient understanding of prescribed medical treatments and health implications of taking recreational substances. Thirdly, psychoactive substances provide important tool for understanding human behaviour. A drug is an administered substance that alters physiological functioning. Administered refers to the person taking or being given the substance. The term administered ignored the substances that are produced by the body, naturally.
