Psychopharmacology

(3 Credits)

The goal of this course is to provide students with an introduction to the psychopharmacology of various medications, illicit drugs, and alcohol, as well as the medications’ clinical uses with children and adolescents. Agents to be covered include antidepressants, antipsychotics, anxiolytics, anticonvulsants, stimulants, narcotic analgesics, hallucinogens, and sedatives. Applications for the various drugs will be discussed. This course will presume some basic knowledge of the relevant concepts of neurobiology and neurotransmitters, but a brief review of these concepts will be included. Some familiarity with the DSM-5, as well as the medical model of mental illness, is expected.