Occupation or Discipline
psychopharmacology Audio
psy·cho·phar·ma·col·o·gy [ sahy-koh-fahr-muh-kol-uh-jee ]
Subclass of:
Psychiatric Somatic Therapies; Behavioral Sciences; Pharmacology
Definitions related to psychopharmacology:
  • Study of the effects of drugs on mental and behavioral activity.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • The science concerned with drug action and its effect on cognition and behavior
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • The study of the effects of drugs on mental and behavioral activity.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • Psychopharmacology, the development, study, and use of drugs for the modification of behaviour and the alleviation of symptoms, particularly in the treatment of mental disorders. One of the most striking advances in the treatment of mental illnesses in the middle of the 20th century was the...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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