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PCL 401 General Pharmacology III

400 levelMedical & Health Sciences10 topics

PCL 401 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Central neurotransmitters
  2. Local and general anaesthetics
  3. Pharmacology of pain: aspirin and morphine
  4. Opiate receptors, tolerance and dependence
  5. Anxiolytics, sedatives and hypnotics
  6. Antipsychotic drugs and extrapyramidal side effects
  7. Parkinson's disease and related movement disorders
  8. Antidepressant drugs: tricyclics and atypical agents
  9. Antiepileptic drugs and types of seizures
  10. Convulsant agents and psychotomimetic drugs

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Central neurotransmitters

Central neurotransmitters are the chemical messengers used by neurons within the brain and spinal cord to communicate, excite, inhibit, and modulate neural circuits. For exam purposes, you must master their classification, major examples, sites of action, and the link between transmitter imbalance and drug effects, because many CNS drugs act by increasing, decreasing, or mimicking these transmitters.

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