Psychopharmacology

Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience

Psychopharmacology

Full course description

Students will become acquainted with some current topics in psychopharmacology, i.e. mechanisms of medicinal drugs including new avenues, nutritional substances and substance use disorder.

There will be explicit attention to the different perspectives of Psychopharmacology from the tracks in which participating students are residing, ie. Neuropsychology (NP) and Psychopathology (PP).

Some research topics and perspectives in Psychopharmacology:

  • Old illicit drugs, new drugs or new targets?
  • Addiction
  • Basic psychopharmacological mechanisms
  • Dopaminergic manipulations of frontal cortex function

The final assessment for this course is pass or fail - and not a numerical grade between 0,0 and 10,0.

Course objectives

  • students are able to understand and remember principles of psychopharmacology and illustrate them using examples of psychopharmacological studies;
  • students are able to create a presentation on a topic of psychopharmacology and present (apply) it professionally.
PSY4335
Period 6
9 Jun 2025
4 Jul 2025
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ECTS credits: 
1.0
Instruction language: 
English
Coordinator:
Teaching methods: 
Lecture(s), Presentation(s), Work in subgroups
Assessment methods: 
Attendance, Presentation
Keywords: 
psychopharmacology