Pharmacoclogy & Drug Discovery

Psychopharmacology & Neuropharmacology

Psychopharmacology is the learning of the effects of medication on the psyche (psychology), observing changed behaviours and how molecular events are manifest in a measurable behavioural form. Neuropharmacology is the study of the effects of medication on central and peripheral nervous system performance. Neurogenesis and repair deal with other aspects on the indications for medications prescribed to address psychiatric and behavioural problems, that are associated with, including antipsychotic, anxiolytic and anticonvulsant medications, acquired brain injury and Neurocognitive effects associated with therapeutic drugs also include mood stabilizers and treatments prescribed for disorders of attention. The treatments may cause side effects such as induction of the metabolic syndrome, type-2 diabetes related to the medications prescribed for management of psychiatric and behavioural disorders and disturbances. Ethno psychopharmacology also deals with the biotransformation and metabolism of medications, as well as specific differential actions: i.e., CYP450 enzymatic inhibition and induction of metabolism of psychopharmacological and herbaceutical substrates. Neuropharmacology is the study of drugs and their targets that influence the functions of the nervous system (brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves) in health and disease.