PSYB65H3 Lecture 8: Lecture 8 - Psychopharmacology of drug action, depressants, opiates, hallucinogens
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Lecture 8 chapter 11 and 16 (attention and consciousness and recovery and function) Psychopharmacology of drug action, depressants, opiates, and hallucinogens. Alcoholics take up most of the psych ward in hospitals. Depressants: referred to as sedative hypnotics: valium and barbiturates, causes cortex to go into more relaxed states. 3 major categories: barbiturates: working through gaba. gaba is the primary inhibitory amino acid transmitter they bind to gaba receptors and lower [transmission] while they do induce sleep, reduce the time in rem sleep behavioural consequences of that. : always a chance of death by seizure if they have been on high dose of it for a while. alcohol will stop the withdrawal sympto ms of barbiturates: non-barbiturates, alcohol www. notesolution. com. made by yeast, yeast digests sugar and excrete alcohol. causes more problems than any other drug in society (as a scientist he has to be objective and this is a fact!)
