PSYC62H3 Study Guide - Spring 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Dopamine, Nucleus Accumbens, Cerebral Cortex
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Intro: psychoactive substances have impact on nervous system and enormous impact on society, focus on the individual, alcohol/tobacco use, purposes of acquiring nicotine, nicotine replacement treatments(nrts) Site of action (usually synapse: drug effects on behaviour, overall effect on biology of the organism, e. g. increased heart rate, overall arousal in psychological response. Drug effects: determined by dose: dose: ratio of amount of drug per unit of body, ex: tylenol, take 1-2 pills every x hours, dosages according to body size. Subdomains of pharmacology: pharmacodynamics, how drugs affect biological actions, ssris, pharmacokinetics, how drugs pass through body from point of entry, pharmacogenetics, how genetic differences influence drugs pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic effects. Objective and subjective effects: objective, pharmacological effects that can be directly observed by others, ex: your heart rate is 120. Subjective: effe(cid:272)ts that (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e see(cid:374) dire(cid:272)tl(cid:455, ex: describe the drug effects, communicative.
