PSYC62H3 Chapter Notes -Mental Disorder, Paracetamol, Emo
5 Jan 2015
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: the study of how drugs affect mood, percept. , thinking, or behav. psychoactive drugs: drugs that affect mood, percept. , thinking, or behav. by acting in the. Administered substances = taken by person or given but this term excludes substances made naturally in the body. Nt dopamine is made in the ns and elicits changes on ns functioning but can also be admin. in a hospital. Levodopa is a drug taken for parkinson"s disease but it is naturally produced chem. important for making dopamine. Vitamins are taken to ward off diseases and improve health but they aren"t called drugs; nor are herbal remedies. Alters physio. functioning = substance must exhib. sufic. efficacy to change physio. processes. Drugs don"t have a certain appearance they differ in form (pills, liquids, powers) Molecules: [nicotine is consider a drug but is a mol. in the tar of cigarettes] Pyschoactive drugs: described by manner of use coffee to wake up.
