Behavioral Pharmacology   [Archived Catalog]
2011-2012 Academic Catalog and Student Handbook with Revised Addendum
   

AB 532 - Behavioral Pharmacology


Prerequisite(s): AB 520 . This course presents the basic principles required for the use of psychopharmacological agents. All major classes of psychotropics are presented, including antidepressants, mood stabilizers, antipsychotics, anxiolytics and sedatives/hypnotics, psycho-stimulants, and atypical medications. Other topics covered include laboratory and physiological assessments pertinent to their use, basic neuron-chemical and anatomical concepts associated with their proposed mechanism of action, drug-drug interactions, adverse reactions, and pertinent aspects of differential diagnosis. Psychiatric aspects of general medical conditions, with particular attention to the diagnosis and treatment of delirium, are presented. (3 credits)