Imagine neurotransmitters as messengers in a busy city, carrying signals between buildings. In your brain, these messengers — such as serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine — transmit signals that ...

Psychopharmacology is a field, which analyses the impact of different drugs on the mental health of patients. It considers how different compounds alter people’s behavior by changing the way that the ...

Prescribing psychology is now a viable career option for psychologists and is poised to make a difference in mental health ...

Psychopharmacology is the study of the use of medications in treating mental disorders. Generally, any physician or psychiatrist who treats patients with psychotropic medication is considered a ...

After finishing my psychiatric training, when I began work in my home city of Washington DC in the late 1990s, Dr Frederick Goodwin, who had accepted the task of mentoring me, told me I should get to ...

Postmenopausal women not taking HRT have been found to have an apparent desensitization of serotonin receptors or a blunted serotonergic responsivity. Unfortunately, the effect of estrogen on ...

LAS CRUCES - The clinical psychopharmacology program at New Mexico State University is a unique program with students from across North America and the world, attracting practicing psychologists ...

In accordance with the provisions of the Kefauver–Harris Amendments of 1962 to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic (FDC) Act 2, the FDA committed itself to an assessment of the efficacy of all pharmaceuticals ...

Many people affected by mental illness are facing a bleak future as drug companies abandon research into the area and other funding providers fail to take up the slack, according to a new report.

Johns Hopkins researchers report that a small number of longtime smokers who had failed many attempts to drop the habit did so after a carefully controlled and monitored use of psilocybin—the active ...