PSYC62H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Pharmacodynamics, Job Performance, Phases Of Clinical Research
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Psychopharmacology: psychopharmacology : study of how drugs affect mood, perception, thinking, or behaviour, behavioural pharmacology: study of how drugs affect behavior. Drugs: administered substances that alter physiological functions: drug: administered substance that alters physiological functioning, two categories , instrumental (therapeutic) Therapeutic drugs : drug used to treat a physical or mental disorder: recreational: using a drug to experience its effect. Misusing a drug : using a drug that is intended to be therapeutic, for recreational purposes. Drug abuse : drug use that causes harm to the user or others. Generic names, trade names, and street names for drugs: trade name: drug name developed for marketing the drug, generic name: names that show how drugs organizationally fit with other drugs, benzodiazepines usually end in ine due the correspondence to an amine chemical group in their structures. Done by dividing the highest ed50 drug by lowest.
