PSY 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Controlled Substances Act, Psychopharmacology, Phenothiazine
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Classification | establish drug profile by screening, classifying, evaluation (blind studies) Most useful classification for psychopharmacologist = behavioral effects, therapeutic objectives. Phase i: human pharmalogical testing | same pattern as animal tests. Metabolic studies: identify enzymatic pathways of a drug"s metabolism urine/blood. Observation: psychomotor behavior, neurological behavior, autonomic effects. Conditioning studies: give them a task to practice on (learn a maze) and see before/after. Psychometrics: critical flicker fusion frequency test (cff): find threshold point where on sees blinking light, word association time (wat): respond to a given word with first associated word that comes to mind. Evaluation of drug effect on pathological profile. Direct pharmacological tests: objective measurements of behavioral changes in single traits of an animal during drug use. Rating scales: codify drug effects by observing animal actions (subjective) Objective pharmalogical tests: evaluate single traits, objective measurement of animal"s behavior on a drug.