Psychopharmacology

Medications aimed at treating mental disorders have proved very useful in clinical practice, but they also have their drawbacks. Although in many cases they allow mitigating certain symptoms that...

The sertraline is one of the substances that can be used for the treatment of major depressive disorders, and belongs to the group of antidepressant psychotropic drugs.It was first marketed in 1991...

As we all know, the use of substances with properties that contribute to improve the symptoms of a disease or disorder is a key element in medicine, being used to return the organism to its state of...

Dormidine is a very popular drug, which is best known for being used to fight insomnia for its sedative effects.Did you know that this drug is really a first generation antihistamine? Some will ask...

Diazepam, lorazepam, olanzapine, methylphenidate... Some of these names can be very familiar to read and listen in today's society.All of them are psychotropic drugs, substances that through certain...

The culture and society in which we live is characterized by a high level of dynamism and constant change, together with a high demand for the people who are part of it.We are constantly being asked...

Mood disorders are, after anxiety disorders, the most prevalent in the population. Within these types of disorder, depression is the best known and most frequent.It is a disorder that causes great...

There is a great diversity of theories and hypotheses about psychotic disorders, its causes and the way to treat them. These disorders are a great detriment to those who suffer, and produce a strong...

We go out partying and we want to hold dancing all night. We have to study for an exam or deliver a project in a too short period of time. In these and similar situations one's physical and / or...

The history of psychopharmacology is full of curiosities and discoveries of various kinds.Since some of these discoveries are the product of arduous research and others derived from the observation...