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Introduction to Content
Why is it useful as a psychologis...,
What is a drug effect,
What is a drug action
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What makes one drug more potent than another?
Define potency,
Why is it difficult to understand...,
What is pharmacokinetics
19
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Drug Availiability
What is a partition coefficient,
Which compound crosses the phosph...,
How do we determine the partition...
32
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Pharmacodynamics
What do we refer to when we talk ...,
What is the corresponding metabol...,
What is the solution to get aroun...
28
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Drug Affinity and Efficacy
What does a scatchard plot represent,
How can we determine drug affinity,
What is koff
26
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Receptors
Briefly describe the discovery of...,
What is bioassay,
Describe ligand gated ion channel...
28
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Tolerance
What is tolerance,
Why is drug tolerance such a dang...,
What is pharmacokinetic tolerance
19
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What are some ways that drug-receptor interactions can influence neuronal firing?
What is the driving force behind ...,
What are the main ions involved i...,
What is an anion
29
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What other ways can a drug affect neuronal transmission?
What is neurotransmission,
What happened in 1952,
What does quantal mean
46
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Excitatory Amino Acid Transmitters
What is the primary neurotransmit...,
What are excitatory amino acids eaas,
Which eaa do most excitatory rece...
31
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Long Term Potentiation
What is retrograde signalling,
Does glutamate open ndma channels,
During the process of long term p...
22
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Inhibitory Amino Acids
What is the most predominant inhi...,
What is the second and less major...,
What does gaba stand for
37
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What is GHB and how does it work?
What is ghb,
What kind of receptor is gabab,
How does the gabab system work
35
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Why do psychostimulants sometimes produce a calming effect?
What is a readily releasable pool,
Do all of the catecholamines have...,
What is the primary da signal ter...
25
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Dopamine receptors
What does hypofrontal mean,
What are the two families of dopa...,
What are the subtypes of the d1 f...
11
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Antipsychotics
Schizophrenia os to be considered...,
Schizophrenia is significantly co...,
What is the global incidence of s...
27
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Serotonin
What is the chemical name for ser...,
What is the primary role of serot...,
Describe the synthesis of 5 ht
27
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Antidepressants
What is the prevalence of depression,
Which nts do antidepressants target,
What is a placebo in terms of pha...
25
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