PSYC62H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychoactive Drug, Tachycardia, Behaviorism
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Psyc62 lecture 1: introduction: psychoactive substances have an enormous impact on society, alcohol and tobacco use, rx drugs for psychiatric indications, broad areas of inquiry, major classes of psychoactive drugs. Do (cid:455)ou like the effe(cid:272)ts? (cid:863: although both objective and subjective effects are important, there are limitations to the latter, psychopharmacology research, dependent variable. Independent variable: correlational study, experimental study, placebo, very important term for drug research, does(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e the a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e i(cid:374)g(cid:396)edie(cid:374)t, treatment arms. If we have enough subjects in a treatment study, we can see the impact a drug has relative to an established drug and a placebo. Limitation to having lots of drugs in one study. Identify disorder to treat: decisions include feasibility and profitability concerns, 2. Drug synthesis: chemists synthesize experimental compounds, 3. Biological experimentation: high-throughput screening methods provide basic biological information about compounds, results are sent to chemists and guide synthesis of further compounds, 4.
