Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 49: Psychotherapy, Psychopathology, Tardive Dyskinesia

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Lecture forty nine: mary is suffering from extreme ocd. Doctors have tried just about everything but nothing works. Which of the following would you suggest as the best next step: cingulectomy. Useful psychoactive drugs introduced only about 50 years ago. French drug company produced chlorpromazine dramatic effect on schizophrenia. Drugs relieve symptoms by altering synaptic communication/transmission. Bind at specific receptor site and increases the sensitivity of. Patients with neuroses prone to dependency on any anti- anxiety drug. Ne, serotonin, dopamine: extremely depressed patients become less sad, more optimistic, elavil inhibits the re-uptake of serotonin and ne, mao inhibitor inhibits mao effectively leaving serotonin and ne in synapse, issues. 4 weeks for effectiveness: tricyclics are prescribed more often than mao inhibitors. Maois have more side effects and you need a special diet: certain drugs are effective for other disorders, tricyclic clomipramine is good for ocd, more recent drug is prozac. It seemed to be new and didn"t have side effects.