What is Psychopharmacology?
Psychopharmacology is also called "psychopharmacology". A discipline that studies chemicals that directly affect the human central nervous system and affect behaviors, emotions, perceptions, and thought processes. These chemicals can be roughly divided into three categories: (1) Drugs that are mainly used to achieve social effects rather than medical effects, such as alcoholic beverages, caffeine, cocaine, and anesthetics (such as opium and heroin). (2) Drugs used to treat psychosis, such as chloral hydrate and barbie, are characterized by their ability to relieve symptoms of psychosis without side effects (such as preventing patients from moving, coma, or lethargy). (3) Drugs that can cause insanity, such as mescalin and lysergic acid, are mainly used in scientific research. Applying small doses to normal subjects can cause their perception, thinking, and mental state to become extremely disturbed. Drugs for the treatment of psychiatric disorders are useful for research into the chemical and physiological aspects of normal behavior and the causes of psychiatric disorders. [1]
Psychopharmacology
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- Chinese name
- Psychopharmacology
- Foreign name
- psychopharmacology
- research content
- Socio-cultural drug research, etc.
- Psychopharmacology is also called "psychopharmacology". A discipline that studies chemicals that directly affect the human central nervous system and affect behaviors, emotions, perceptions, and thought processes. These chemicals can be roughly divided into three categories: (1) Drugs that are mainly used to achieve social effects rather than medical effects, such as alcoholic beverages, caffeine, cocaine, and anesthetics (such as opium and heroin). (2) Drugs used to treat psychosis, such as chloral hydrate and barbie, are characterized by their ability to relieve symptoms of psychosis without side effects (such as preventing patients from moving, coma, or lethargy). (3) Drugs that can cause insanity, such as mescalin and lysergic acid, are mainly used in scientific research. Applying small doses to normal subjects can cause their perception, thinking, and mental state to become extremely disturbed. Drugs for the treatment of psychiatric disorders are useful for research into the chemical and physiological aspects of normal behavior and the causes of psychiatric disorders. [1]
- research content
- According to the purpose of use, psychopharmacology can be divided into three aspects:
- Social-cultural (non-medical) drug research;
- Drug research for treating mental illness; Drug research for psychiatric illness. The drugs in the above three aspects have cross effects. Psychological drugs can also be used as a powerful tool to study the etiology of psychiatry and the biochemistry and physiology of normal behavior.