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  1. Mood stabilising drugs

    A variety of chemotypes are grouped together as the mood stabilising drugs, used in the management of bipolar disorder (manic depression), mania and hypomania, and sometimes recurrent severe depression. Naming these drugs as mood stabilisers belies their action of stabilising mood in patients who experience problems with extreme highs, extreme lows, or mood swings between extreme highs and lows.

    Mood stabilisers should only be prescribed by mental health professionals, such as psychiatrists.

    smaxwell - 10/10/2014 - 7:56pm

  2. nootropic

    Nootropics are drugs, dietary supplements, or other substances that are used by healthy individuals to improve cognitive function. Nootropics are also known as smart drugs or cognitive enhancers. Widely used nootropics include stimulants such as caffeine, and the ADHD drug methylphenidate (a norepinephrine and dopamine reuptake inhibitor).

    efaccena - 15/03/2016 - 3:17pm

  3. Schizophrenia

    Schizophrenia is a chronic brain disorder characterised by hallucinations, delusions, formal thought and movement disorders, behavioural changes and a lack of motivation. Symptoms are traditionally divided into positive and negative. The diagnosis is made clinically after a full psychiatric history and other causes of psychosis are excluded. The pathophysiology and causes of schizophrenia are multifaceted and extremely complex and there is no full understanding why it occurs. It has a relatively low prevalence affecting less than 1% of people in their lives.

    efaccena - 05/06/2023 - 9:46am

  4. Drugs affecting synthesis, storage, release or removal of noradrenaline

    Drugs which affect the synthesis or storage of noradrenaline will affect all sympathetic nerves, thereby causing a diverse range of effects.  In addition, because there is an overlap in the mechanisms involved in the synthesis, storage, release and removal of noradrenaline, adrenaline and dopamine, drugs which affect noradrenergic neurotransmission will

    hbenson - 24/06/2015 - 1:39pm

  5. Overview of types of receptors, their mechanisms of action and examples

    Main types of drug targets and their mechanisms of action

    Drug Target

    Description

    Example(s)

    Receptors

    Channel-linked receptors

    media - 22/05/2014 - 12:09pm

  6. Antidepressant drugs

    In patients with moderate to severe depression routine antidepressant therapy is effective (as highlighted by Cipriani et al. (2018) following meta-analysis of results from clinical trials of 21 different antidepressants)- and is recommended to be combined with psychological therapy. Drug treatment of mild depression may also be considered in patients with a history of moderate or severe depression.

    smaxwell - 10/10/2014 - 7:55pm

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