Class Neuropsychopharmacology

Curricular unit that seeks to provide students with knowledge about the mechanisms of action of the main psychoactive drugs.

1. Neurotransmitter and information processing systems

2. Neurotransmitters and psychological and behavioural changes 

3. Anxiolytics, hypnotics and sedatives

4. Mood stabilizers

5. Anti-psychotics

6. Psycho-stimulants

7. Depression and Antidepressants

8. Pharmacological intervention in dementias.

9. Alzheimer's disease

10. Parkinson's disease

11. Psychopharmacological treatment in the elderly population

Theoretical classes are taught using the expository method for approach and discussion of programmatic content. The use of scientific studies at the intersection between neurobiology and neuropsychology allow a deeper understanding of the biological changes associated with the clinical and adverse effects of psychotropic drugs.

Splittgerber, R. (2018). Snell's Clinical Neuroanatomy. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Braslow, J. T., & Marder, S. R. (2019). History of psychopharmacology. Annual review of clinical psychology, 15, 25-50.

Stahl, S.M. (2013). Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Applications (4th ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Stahl, S. M. (2018). Prescriber's Guide Children and Adolescents: Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology. Cambridge University Press.

Muse, M. (Ed.). (2017). Cognitive Behavioral Psychopharmacology: The Clinical Practice of Evidence-based Biopsychosocial Integration. John Wiley & Sons.

Preston, J., O'Neal, J. H., & Talaga, M. C. (2010). Handbook of clinical psychopharmacology for therapists. New Harbinger Publications.