Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience
Psychopharmacology
Volledige vakbeschrijving
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
Doelstellingen van dit vak
- 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
Periode 6
9 jun 2025
4 jul 2025
Studiepunten:
1.0Taal van de opleiding:
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Onderwijsmethode:
Lecture(s), Presentation(s), Work in subgroupsEvaluatiemethoden:
Attendance, PresentationTrefwoorden:
psychopharmacology