PSYC 455 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pharmacokinetics, Serotonin Transporter, Adderall
17 Feb 2018
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Lecture 2 pharmacokinetics: pharmacokinetics, pharmacokinetics definition, the science of how drugs are absorbed, distributed, metabolised, and eliminated (adme) in the body, ways to talk about drugs in the brain, drug effects: What effect a certain drug has on our behavior (e. g. , x drug makes you sleepy): drug actions: What the drug does once it gets to the brain (i. e. what it does to neurons, how it binds to its receptor): Because these people treat their adhd by taking the drug orally: If you were to snort it, you would be dancing all night (i. e. because the drug is not metabolised/absorbed the same way; the route of administration is important): Essentially, pharmacokinetics is the science of how our body rids us from substances: route of administration, two routes based on the different pharmacokinetics used to rid our bodies of a drug: Anything that goes through the gi track (i. e. oral, sublingual, rectal):
