Definition of psychopharmacology
: the study of the effect of drugs on the mind and behavior
Updated on: 7 Apr 2018
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In this capacious and rigorous history of psychopharmacology, the psychologist and writer Lauren Slater says that doctors don’t really understand how psychotropic medications work or how to assess if a patient needs them.
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In his early professional years, Dr. Sackler conducted research in the then relatively new field of psychopharmacology, or the use of medication to treat mental disorders, according to Purdue.
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Dr. Raymond Sackler, a pioneer in psychopharmacology, a medicinal products entrepreneur and a leading philanthropist whose family made a fortune from the opioid painkiller OxyContin, died on Monday in Greenwich, Conn.
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First Known Use of psychopharmacology
1920
Medical Dictionary
medical Definition of psychopharmacology
plural psychopharmacologies
: the study of the effect of drugs on the mind and behavior
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Britannica.com: Encyclopedia article about psychopharmacology
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