PSYB65H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Tricyclic Antidepressant, Dopamine Agonist, Dopamine Antagonist
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Chapter 7:the influence on drugs and hormones on behaviour. Psychopharmacology=study of how drugs affect the nervous system and behaviour. Principles of psychopharmacology: a drug is a chemical compound that is administered to bring about some desired change in the body. Usually drugs are used to diagnose, treat, or prevent illness, to relieve pain and suffering, or to improve an adverse physiological condition. On the other hand, throughout human history, drugs have also been used as food substances, for recreation, and even as poisons. Today, they are also used as research tools. Psychoactive drugs substances that act to alter mood, thought, or behavior and are used to manage neuropsychological illness. Many psychoactive drugs are also substances of abuse. That is, people take them for nonmedical reasons or recreationally to the point that their functioning becomes impaired. Many psychoactive drugs promote craving and can produce addiction. Some can also act as toxins, producing sickness, brain damage, or death.
