PSYC 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Inverse Agonist, Serotonin, Colchicine
19 Feb 2016
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Week 4 - psychopharmacology: history and definitions. Substances have been used to attempt to alter bodily functions. Willow bark: making tea out of it/contains salicylate - relate of aspirin. Drug: a substance that, when taken into the body, produces a systematic change in the functioning of the body. Bio active molecules synthesized by plants, animals or in lab. Even water can be considered a drug (h20 intoxication) If you take in too much water, you dilute cellular fluid, cell membranes collapse, your. Axons can"t move, no action potentials, you die. Dose is a single treatment, dosage is a treatment regime (1 capsul 3 times a day for 10 days) Homeostatic responses: response in which the body tries to bring its internal environment to an average set point. In the hand, directly in the venus of the system (blood flow?) Injection in the shoulder (body of the muscle) Subcutaneous s. c. - short needle deposited just under the skin.
