Lecture 1 Flashcards
1
Q
Who is the father of modern psychopharmacology? And what did he do?
A
Emil Kraeplin.
Advocated the notion of psychiatric diseases as having some of their origins rooted in genetics and biology
2
Q
dementia praecox
A
schizophrenia
3
Q
manic depressive illness
A
bipolar disorder
4
Q
Alois Alzheimer
A
Alzheimers disease was homie of Emil Kraeplin
5
Q
Who coined psychopharmacology?
A
pharmacologists Macht and Mora
6
Q
Who synethesized LSD
A
Albert Hoffman at Sandoz.
7
Q
What was the first antipsychotic medication?
A
Chlorpromazine
8
Q
Imipramine
A
first tricyclic antidepressant to be discovered
