PSYC 455 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Stimulant Psychosis, Tricyclic Antidepressant, Frontal Lobe
17 Feb 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Lecture 1 history of psychopharmacology: history of psychopharmacology, types of drugs, psychotherapeutic drugs: Drugs taken to feel better (e. g. , antidepressants, anti-anxiety drugs): psychoactive: Any drug that will affect your mental state. Applying electrical current to the temples to induce a seizure: Caused amnesia and broken bones from the seizure. Still used today but only as a last resort case (e. g. , severe suicidal people) Involves entering the skull through the eye socket with an ice pick-like device to sever the connections between the frontal cortex and the rest of the brain: Did(cid:374)"t (cid:272)ure, (cid:271)ut (cid:373)ade the people easier to (cid:373)a(cid:374)age: 1950s: Narrow therapeutic index (ti; i. e. if you take too many by accident, you can overdose and die). Before the 1960s, people only took drugs if there was something wrong with them (i. e. it was taboo): This changed when celebrities started taking it (and the pharma companies knew this).
