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By Susan Barron, University of Kentucky. Psychopharmacology is the study of how drugs affect behavior. If a drug changes your perception, or the way you feel or think, the drug exerts effects on your brain and nervous system. We call drugs that change the way you think or feel psychoactive or psychotropic drugs, and almost everyone has used a psychoactive drug at some point (yes, caffeine counts). Understanding some of the basics about psychopharmacology can help us better understand a wide range of things that interest psychologists and others...
- Subject:
- Psychology
- Material Type:
- Reading
- Author:
- Maura Krestar
- Date Added:
- 05/20/2021