psychopharmacology

psychopharmacology

n. the study of the influence of drugs on mental, emotional, and behavioral processes. Psychopharmacology is concerned primarily with the mode of action of various substances that affect different areas of the brain and nervous system, including drugs of abuse. See also clinical psychopharmacology; geriatric psychopharmacology; pediatric psychopharmacology; preclinical psychopharmacology. —psychopharmacological adj. —psychopharmacologist n.

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