PCTH 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Neurotransmission, Bipolar Disorder
21 Nov 2017
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Objectives: understand the physiology of neurotransmission in the brain, differentiate the different types of psychiatric disorders. Identify the different classes of psychiatric drugs, their uses and their mechanisms of action: be aware of the common side effects of psychiatric drugs. Psychotherapeutics is one of the most prescribed therapeutic classes in canada. The brain: controls all mental activity, consists of ~100 billion neurons, neuron: nerve cell that transmits information through electrical and chemical signals, each neuron can receive input from many other neurons send input to many other neurons. Neuron (parts following direction of impulse: dendrites: finger like projections, cell body, axon (terminal) Depression and anxiety are two of the top 10 reasons for physician visits in canada. The number of people diagnosed with mood disorders in canada has increased from 2011- Among the population that has been diagnosed each year, the number of females were greater than that of males.
