Applied Therapeutics

Full course description

This course addresses prevalence of psychiatric disorders and the use of psychotropic drugs. The students will be presented pharmacotherapeutic data of several drugs, necessary to start a therapeutic regimen for individual patients. Clinical pharmacological knowledge will be applied to several cases within different drug groups, i.e. cardiac and CNS drugs, with the objective to maximize drug effects while minimizing side effects (i.e. movement, cardiovascular, sexual and CNS side effects). The influence of genetic polymorphisms and drug-drug interactions on patient dependent drug choice and treatment adherence. 

The final assessment for this course is a numerical grade between 0,0 and 10,0.