Psychoparmacology The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior
Antipsychotic drugs
- Are a class of medicines used to treat psychosis and other mental conditions
- If you have hallucinations, delusions, and agitations, you will be prescribed antipsychotic drugs
- These drugs often have powerful side effects
Antianxiety Drugs
- Includes drugs like Vallium and Librium
- Like alcohol, they depress the nervous system
- Most widely abused drug
Do they REALLY solve the problem?
Antidepressant drugs
- Lift you up out of depression
- Most increase the neurotransmitter Norepinephrine
Prozac, Paxil, zoloft
Work by blocking serotonin reuptake
Electroconvulsive Therapy
- Biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which brief electric currents are sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient
- can cause memory problems
