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
- Hours
- 36 ore - Oxana Bereshchenko
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2021/22
- 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. Psycopharmacology.
Stahl.
Essential Neuropsycopharmacology. - Educational objectives
- The lessons are aimed at studying the psychotropic drugs and providing the psychologist-psychotherapist 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, so good basic knowledge related to Physiology, Neurophysiology and Psychiatry is needed.
- Teaching methods
- frontal lectures
- Learning verification modality
- Written test (when epidemiological situation permits it):¿Multiple choice questions.¿Five possible answers of which only one is correct.¿Exam duration 30 minutes.¿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 toxicity.¿Definition of psychopharmaceutical.¿Elementary bases of the functioning of psychotropic drugs.¿Main classes of drugs of the central nervous system.¿Drugs depressing the central nervous system¿- barbiturates;¿- antiepileptics;¿- 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.