Using neuroscience for naming psychotropic drugs

Using neuroscience for naming psychotropic drugs.

Currently, psychotropic drug “vocabulary” is based on clinical indications,mostly 6 classes, namely, antipsychotic, antidepressant, mood stabilizer, stimulant, anxiolytic, and hypnotic. This naming system creates much confusion, since so-called antidepressants are commonly used as anxiolytics, antipsychotics increasingly as antidepressants, and so on. Vocabulary based on clinical indications al...

Psychotropic drugs

The interaction between the cognitive component (the perception of nociceptive, or painful stimuli) and the affective component of pain is reflected in the overlap between the actions of anti-nociceptive agents (analgesics) and mood-altering drugs (psychotropics) when treating pain patients. Anxiety, depression, fear and sleeplessness may all respond to psychotropic drugs, and this may result i...

[Psychotropic drugs].

The interaction between the cognitive component (the perception of nociceptive, or painful stimuli) and the affective component of pain is reflected in the overlap between the actions of anti-nociceptive agents (analgesics) and mood-altering drugs (psychotropics) when treating pain patients. Anxiety, depression, fear and sleeplessness may all respond to psychotropic drugs, and this may result i...

Psychotropic drugs.

Introduction Of the many patients with psychological illness or disorders in which emotional factors are important, a large proportion are given psychotropic drugs. Many improve because of this treatment and some despite it. The potent agents now available are liable to produce side-effects or toxic effects which have to be set against the potential benefits conferred by these drugs. If drug tr...

Non-Antibiotics: Psychotropic Drugs