PHA 3112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Buspirone, Flumazenil, Trazodone
25 Mar 2017
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Antipsychotic drugs changed the field of psychiatry. Treatment-resistant depression: there are alternatives for this that aren"t nearly as toxic. Deinstitutionalization" no drugs at the time, when drugs were discovered/created, it changed the field of psychiatry. 90% of patients in institutions could be discharged. Delusions false-fixed beliefs: there is a radio transmitting instructions in my head . Devastating effects on the personality of the person. Diagnosis is completely subjective: no blood test, x-ray, etc for any of the 100s of diagnoses. If someone has schizophrenia it"s what the doctor sees in the patient. Narcolepsy: can be made on the basis on an eeg or blood test only condition in the entire book of dsm. Positive symptoms: what the antipsychotic drugs help with. Delusions (religious, grandiose, persecutors (rcmp is monitoring my thoughts for ex) Disordered thinking + loose association" can"t follow the logic, no logic to what the ( hear voices", less common: visual, touch, smell) person is saying (called: word salad)
