PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Pharmacodynamics, Mood Stabilizer, Pharmacology

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Michelle Hilscher

Document Summary

Psychopharmacology: the study of how drugs affect mood, perception, thinking, or behaviour. Psychoactive drugs: drugs that affect mood, perception, thinking, or behaviour by acting in the nervous system. Relate actions and effects of drugs to issues in psychology. Psychopharmacologists know how nervous system functions and how psychoactive drugs alter functioning. Behavioral pharmacology (limited to behavior analysis): the study of how drugs affect behavior drugs are behaviorally controlling stimuli. Neuropsychopharmacology: the study of how drugs affect the nervous system and how these nervous system changes alter behavior. In u. s. , >100 mill antidepressant drug prescriptions, >80 mill anxiolytic, sedative, and hypnotic drugs prescribed, and >200 mill pain-relieving drug prescriptions every year. >114 mill adults drink, >25 mill use marijuana, >15 mill misuse prescription drug, and >70 mill use tobacco products. Who high rates of psychoactive drug use internationally. Greater knowledge of psychoactive substances improves understanding of prescribed medical treatments and health implications of recreational substances.