PSY396H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Bradycardia, Drug Metabolism, Fluid Compartments
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Psychopharmacology: chapter 1 principles of pharmacology (lecture 4) Henry beecher"s nursing assistant injected saline solution to soldiers while deceiving them to think they were getting a potent painkiller, and the inert injection did have an effect this was the beginning of the placebo effect. Neuropharmacology: concerned with drug-induced changes in the functioning of cells in the nervous system. Psychopharmacology: emphasizes drug-induced changes in mood, thinking and behaviour. Neuropsychopharmacology: goal is to identify chemical substances that act on the nervous system to alter behaviour that is disturbed because of injury, disease, or environmental factors. Specific drug effects: those based on the physical and biochemical interactions of a drug with a target site: non-specific drug effects: those based on certain unique characteristics on the individual (not drug-receptor interaction) Individual"s background drug experience, mood, expectations, perceptions, attitude effect the outcome. Placebo effect a pharmacologically inert compound administered to an individual; but it has both therapeutic and side effects.
