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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Educational Studies |
| Mestrado Universitario en Psicoloxía Aplicada |
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| Psychopharmacology |
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| Identifying Data | 2019/20 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Psychopharmacology | Code | 652438013 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Official Master's Degree | 2nd four-month period |
First | Obligatory | 3 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| I. Introduction | 1. Neurophysiological bases of psychopharmacology: cell neurophysiology, interneuron communication, psychopharmacotherapy principles. |
| II. Pharmacology | 2. Essential concepts in Pharmacology. 3. Pharmacokinetics: absorption, distribution, metabolization and excretion processes. 4. Pharmacodynamics: drug mechanisms of action, dose-response curves, pharmacologic response variability. |
| III. Psychodrugs | 5. Psycholeptic drugs: hipnotic drugs, anxyolitic drugs, neuroleptic drugs. 6. Psychoanaleptic drugs: antidepressant drugs, psychostimulating drugs, nootropes. 7. Psychodysleptic drugs. |
| IV. Advances | 8. Development of new psychodrugs. |
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