PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Antipsychotic, Molecular Machine, Endangerment
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Therapy is tailored to the patient and so there is a mix in treatment. The basic idea is the disordered behaviour is due to something wrong with the biological machine. Ex. depressed pilot that crashed plane even though he was getting therapy. The way the brain works is that when you introduce a drug, it affects. Simultaneously helps the problem and also causes many other side effects (cid:1) (cid:1) the brain on a whole. Overtime, the brain realizes that it has extra doses of serotonin for. Connects thoughts to disorders also affects levels of neurochemicals in the brain. When you endanger people you show psychotic behaviour: depressed people can also show these tendencies (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Chlorpromazine (thorazine/largactil) reduces the +ve symptoms of (cid:1) Chemical composition similar to dopamine connects to the receptors and blocks dopamine from activating the next neuron. Long term in high doses: tardive dyskinesia: lip smacking, drooling (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1)
