This document provides an overview of psychopharmacology and the use of psychotropic drugs to treat various psychiatric disorders. It discusses the main drug classes used including antipsychotics, antianxiety drugs, antidepressants, and mood stabilizers. It focuses on the treatment of psychosis, schizophrenia, and affective or mood disorders. The document outlines the neurological mechanisms and side effects of typical and atypical antipsychotic drugs, especially their effects on dopamine and serotonin transmission in the brain.

12. Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Post-Impressionist Painter, 1853-1890)

15. *Psychoanalysis (1900)……..Freud (major in neurotics Tx)

16. Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

18. Henri Laborit (Paris, 1952) : chlorpromazine

20. Dopaminergic receptor

21. Neurons Containing Dopamine

22. Dopamine D 2 receptor

23. Antagonist D2

24. Autoreceptor inactivation (depolarization Blockade)

26. Neurons Containing 5-HT Form a Chain of Raphe Nuclei

27. Serotonin transmission

29. M A+B E

36. Choice of Antipsychotics

37. Life is like an onion, which one peels crying. French proverb

38. Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)