Unit ELEMENTS OF PHARMACOLOGY FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS
- Course
- Assessment of individual functioning in clinical and health psychology
- Study-unit Code
- A001620
- Curriculum
- Curriculum ii
- Teacher
- Oxana Bereshchenko
- Teachers
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- Oxana Bereshchenko
- Graziella Migliorati (Codocenza)
- Hours
- 30 ore - Oxana Bereshchenko
- 6 ore (Codocenza) - Graziella Migliorati
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- BIO/14
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- General principles of drug action:
Pharmacokinetics
Pharmacodynamics
Main classes of drugs that act on the central nervous system. - Reference texts
- Meyer. Psychopharmacology: Drugs, the Brain and Behavior
- Educational objectives
- The lectures are aimed at describing the action of psychotropic drugs and providing the psychology corse students with tools that can be of help in managing the patient.
The course provides the student with an overview of the psychoactive molecules, from the drugs used in the treatment of the main psychological-psychiatric disorders, to the substances of abuse including those of common use such as nicotine, alcohol, caffeine and analgesics. - Prerequisites
- The course makes numerous connections with clinical psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience and neuroanatomy, therefore basic knowledge related to Physiology and Neurobiology is required.
- Teaching methods
- Frontal teaching
- Other information
- The attendance of the frontal and online lessons is not obligatory.
- Learning verification modality
- Oral exam - Until further notice, the exams will occur online, according to the University of Perugia guidelines for the Teaching at a Distance. The evaluation criteria will be based on the understanding of the topics covered, on the acquisition of the proposed concepts and methodologies and on the ability to apply them independently and consciously.
- Extended program
- Principles of drug action, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
Definition of psycopharmacology.
Bases of the action of psychotropic drugs.
Main classes of drugs of the central nervous system. Anxiolytic hypnotic sedative drugs.
- barbiturates;
- benzodiazepines;
- alcohol;
Drugs for the treatment of mood disorders, major depression and bipolar disorder.
Antipsychotic drugs.
Psychostimulant substances.
Analgesic drugs.
Psychedelic substances.
Antiepileptic drugs.
Pharmacology for Psychologists: limits and perspectives.
What can we expect from drugs, what we can't expect from drugs.
The main bases are given for each class of drugs in relation to:
mechanism of action ;
therapeutic indications;
interactions;
adverse effects;
how they help or interfere in the work of the psychologist.