1. The Biomedical Therapies
Therapies aimed at the altering the body chemistry.

2. Psychopharmacology
The use of drugs to control or relieve the symptoms of psychological disorders.

3. Drugs and Hospitalization
Revolutionized the treatment of people with severe disorders.

4. Emptying of Mental Hospitals

5. Testing New Drugs
When a new drug is released there is always a lot of enthusiasm.
Must use a double-blind procedure to combat placebo and experimental effects.

6. Classification of psychoactive drugs

7. These drugs often have powerful
Antipsychotic Drugs
Antipsychotic drugs are a class of medicines used to treat psychosis and other mental and emotional conditions.
Typically excite dopamine receptors
They help schizophrenics with both positive and negative symptoms.
These drugs often have powerful
side effects

8. Most widely abused drugs.
Antianxiety Drugs
Includes drugs like Xanax, Valium and Librium.
Like alcohol, they depress nervous system activity.
Most widely abused drugs.
Do they really solve the problem?

9. Antidepressant Drugs Lift you up out of depression.
Many increase the neurotransmitter norepinephrine but some are serotonin inhibitors.

10. Prozac, Paxil Zoloft Work by blocking serotonin reuptake.
Neurotransmitter animation

11. Mood Stabilizing Medications
Prescribed for those who suffer from the highs and lows of bipolar disorder
The salt lithium is an effective mood stabilizer.
Lithium also reduces the risk of suicide in bipolar patients.

12. How the Mind is affected by medication
Medication Video
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13. Brain Stimulation Therapies

14. Electroconvulsive Therapy
Biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient.
ECT Video

15. Repetitive Transcranial magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)
Applies repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate brain activity.

16. Psychosurgery
Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior.
Cameron Mott had half of her cerebral cortex removed in order to stop the seizures she was experiencing.

17. Psychosurgery
Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior.
Egas Moniz developed the lobotomy in the 1930s.

18. Walter Freeman, the Lobotomist
Lobotomy
Walter Freeman, the Lobotomist

19. Therapeutic Lifestyle Change
Based on the idea that the mind and the body are a unit – affect one and you affect the other.

20. Therapeutic Lifestyle Change
Aerobic Exercise
30 minutes a day, at least 3 times a week
Adequate Sleep
A goal of 7 – 8 hours a night
Light Exposure
At least 30 minutes each morning
Social Connection
At least two meaningful social engagements per week
Antirumination
Identifying and redirecting negative thoughts
Nutritional Supplements

21. Assignment
Psychopharmacology in children and adolescents is different than that of adults. “The Medicated Child”