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Psychopharmacology
How drugs that act on the brain change mood, thinking and behavior — and how the body handles those drugs along the way.
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Fundamentals and course themes
What counts as a drug, the two halves of pharmacology, primary versus side effects, and the lens this course uses to judge drugs.
- Why it matters
- It names the two journeys every later topic sits on: what the body does to the drug, and what the drug does to the brain.
- You'll be able to
- Sort any drug fact into pharmacokinetics or pharmacodynamics, and explain why a drug's effect depends on more than its chemistry.
What makes a drug psychoactive
Defines the objects of the whole course: chemicals from outside the body that change how the brain works.
- Connects to The synapse: release, binding and termination · Brain and synapse
- Unlocks The two journeys: pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
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