This subject builds on the basic concepts of neurophysiology and neurotransmission to examine the role of neural communication in the regulation of various neuropsychiatric disorders. Your goal will be to investigate the pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric disorders and the ways in which these disorders are managed pharmacologically. The pharmacology of the peripheral and central nervous systems. It examines neural communication as a target for drug intervention, and how drugs may be used to relieve pain, produce anaesthesia, regulate autonomic function, as well as control the symptoms of various neuropsychiatric disorders. The subject also contains an introduction to behavioural pharmacology and the mechanisms of drug addiction.

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The Brain: Disorders, Diseases and Drugs

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BM3310 - The Brain: Disorders, Diseases and Drugs

Investigate approaches to studying behavioural pharmacology and its implications for therapeutic drug development as well as the understanding of addictive and other behaviour patterns

Investigate the current understanding of how genes and the environment interact in the development of psychiatric disorders

Examine the neurobiology of pain and current strategies and future developments in the control of pain

Compare normal neuronal function and the targets by which abnormal neuronal function may be modified by drugs

Examine current knowledge of the neurochemical basis of neurological diseases and their treatment, e.g. the use of neuroleptics in the treatment of schizophrenia