PSYC 4039 Chapter : Final Exam Study Guide
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Delay and deniker: were the first to use chlorpromazine with a psychiatric application in st. anne"s. Hospital in paris in 1952: link between xanax and panic disorder became so strong that people started calling panic disorder upjohn illness (name of pharm company) Iproniazid: one of the first antidepressants ever marketed, wasn"t developed as an antidepressant, originally developed for the treatment of tuberculosis. Psychiatry is now in the paradigm phase: mental illness is caused by chemical imbalances in the brain. One drug that was really important that came out in the 1950s: chlorpromazine, transformed the ward environment, other somatic therapies decline, discharge from mental hospitals increases dramatically. Monoamines: two types, catecholamine, dopamine, norepinephrine (noradrenaline, epinephrine (adrenaline, indolamine, serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-ht) 1990- clozaril: clozaril was discovered in the mid-1970s but the implications of its effects as a treatment for schizophrenia didn"t become apparent until after 1988.
