CAS PS 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pharmacodynamics, Dopamine Antagonist, Anxiolytic

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 333
• Professor: Barak Caine

Document Summary

Ps333 - drugs & behavior [ec: email sonja12@bu. edu, ps333 a1 in subject line] Brain mechanisms of psychiatric disorders and drug actions; intro to psychopharmacology; behavior pharmacology. Dependence: not going to go w/o it (behavioral term) *drug: something you ingest and it alters your physiology; not a food or nutrient. Behavior: stimulus --> response; anything an organism does involving action and response to stimulation. Pharmacology: the study of something you ingest and it alters your physiology that is not a food or nutrient. Pharmacokinetics: distribution of drug in the system; onset, duration of action, time course. Pharmacotherapeutics: clinically useful effects of drugs (med, ed50, not side-effects ) Toxicology: toxic or harmful effects of drugs (ld50; ti = ld50/ed50) Pharmacy: the packaging and dispensing of drugs (not pharmacotherapeutics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics) Behavioral/clinical classification (the behavioral classification mds use for therapeutics) Pharmacodynamics (what the drug changes in your synapses)