PSYC31H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitor, Gabapentin, Topiramate
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Principles: deal with difficulties that are shared, address of minority of individual needs. Psychoanalytic: employs 4 phases of psychoanalysis + social dimension. Psychodrama: acting out emotionally significant scenes, works with introverts that need a way to express themselves. Gestalt: facilitate individuals bring their feelings into awareness. Definition: substances which have an impact on psychological experience. Prescription privileges: physicians, nurse practitioners, physician"s assistants, psychologists/pharmacists (regional) Interfere with neurotransmitter systems: serotonergic, norepinephrine, dopamine, acetylcholine. Distribution: has to be liquid soluble or have an active transport, has to pass blood-brain barrier. Agonists (stimulates neurotransmitters) vs. antagonists (stops neurotransmitters from transmission) Drug potency: amount of drug required to produce desired response: have to look at side effects, not just how well the drug is working. Maximum effectiveness: limit where dosage increase has little/no response effect. Therapeutic index: relationship between desired therapeutic effects and associated adverse effects minimize lethality, boost efficacy: adverse reactions, range of severity, mild/reversible, severe/chronic, fatal, dose-related reactions, secondary, hypersuceptibility, overdose, iatrogenic.
