PSYC 242 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Dopamine Agonist, Therapeutic Index, Autoreceptor
Document Summary
Drug is a substance that changes the bodily function upon entry. Psychoactive drug specifically has a phycological effect; changes behavior. Psychopharmacology - study of psychoactive drugs and their action. Fda - administration responsible for the regulation of pharmacological drugs. Potency - is how effective a drug is, affinity - ability to bind to a receptor. Selectivity - ability to bind to specific receptor efficacy - ability of binding to influence behavior agonist increase effects of neurotransmitters antagonist decrease effects of neurotransmitters. Differential tolerance tolerance to some effects but not all. Therapeutic index - the distance between the lethal dose and effective dose. Pharmacokinetics - what the body does to the drug. Pharmacodynamics - what the drug does to the body neurotransmitter synthesis chemicals combine to form neurotransmitters. Monoamine oxidase (mao) breaks down monoamines - pacman agonist. Maoi shuts off the mao the shutter offer, pacman agonist. Anxiolytics - drugs used to reduce anxiety barbiturates/benzodiazepines.
