PSYC62H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychoactive Drug, Food Addiction, Pharmacogenetics
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Often occurs with therapeutic drugs for treatment of mental disorders: recreational drug use: using a drug entirely to experience its effects (e. g. alcohol for intoxication, marijuana for hallucinations) Can lead to drug dependence: need to continue using drug, associated with withdrawal symptoms: drug names, (e. g. ) More than 114 million adults consume alcohol on a regular basis. More than 100 million antidepressant drug prescriptions are written every year. , as well as ways in which psych. drugs affect physiological functioning: neuropsych. : studying drug use from a neural perspective helps analyze behavioral output. Psyc62h3-s: potency: amount of drug used to produce a certain magnitude of effect. Psyc62h3-s: certain safety index: a therapeutic index calculated by dividing a td1 value by an. Pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacogenetics: pharmacodynamics: the physiological actions of drugs (e. g. psychoactive drugs" actions on nervous system), cell receptor binding, signaling etc, (e. g. )
