NEUR 3204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nicotine, Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitor, Anabolism
4 May 2017
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*know the definition of bioavailability and what it means. Lecture 1: principles of psychopharmacology: from drugs to behaviour. Pharmacology is the study of drug action, interactions that occur between a living organism and chemicals that alter normal biological functions: if behaviour is changed, then it"s psychopharmacology, this is the entire physiology, not so specific. Often confused with pharmacy, a separate discipline in the health sciences that deals with preparing and dispensing medicine. Food and other substances derived from plants and other natural sources can elicit potent drugs effects: can be considered psychoactive in nature, an example being tobacco leaves. Physical and biochemical interactions of drug with target site: specific receptors in the brain that facilitate a behaviour as a result from a drug. Some people have more or less receptors, which influences how the drug will affect them. Based on unique characteristics of the individual: susceptibility is different between people.
