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Lecture 6: Psychopharmacology 1Psychopharmacologyis the study of the effects of drugs on the CNS and its resulting effects on behavior.Pharmakon - from the Greek word for drug. Term first used in the early 20th century under the name pharmacopsychology by Emil Kraepelin. Today, psychopharmacologists are psychiatrists, for example.Pharmacokineticsthe movement of drugs in the body.the process by which drugs are absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and excreted.What is a drug?Very broadly, a drug can be anything that exerts an effect on the body. For our purposes, we narrow the term down to 6 criteria.A chemical with therapeutic effectExogenous (outside the body)It is not required for normal cellular functioningTaken in a relatively low dose will have an effect (a large dose of almost anything can have an effect-i.e. salt)It alters the function of certain cells of the bodyIt is a ligandHow do drugs get into our body?Well, pretty much any way you can imagine and even ways you can’t, people have tried to get drugs into their bodies. How quickly a drug can get