Anyone here know any good books or internet pages about psychopharmacology?

[JackiesBabyy]

I've read a LOT about it by just searching around on the internet about the mechanism of actions of certain drugs, I'm not a pharmacology student as I can't stand school(ADHD and college don't mix. I'm smart enough IQ wise but just not patient enough even if I'm going to learn about something fascinating. I do find the subject incredibly interesting though and love learning more about it, and sometimes google doesn't go in-depth enough to satisfy my curiosity.

Not just about the pharmacology of recreational drugs, anything that effects the brain and even just brain chemistry itself (neurotransmitters and the function of the receptors they bind to, the effects of having the receptors blocked by antagonists or activated by agonists, and even the role of neurotransmitters/receptors in mental disorders such as depression, ADHD, personality disorders, etc.)

I figured ADD would be the best place to ask because it's the only one I've seen where people still know more about the subject than me

 

[Epsilon Alpha]

I really need to get around to making a sticky for this kind of thing lol. Rang and Dale's Pharmacology is really straightforward if you want to learn on a receptor-response level. "World of the Cell", and Pratt's "Biochemistry" are good resources too.

The hardest part about pharmacology is just mastering enough of the underlying material to make heads or tails of it.

 

[ugly]

Hi JB

I had a wonderful textbook from a college psychology class I took. I went and looked for it just now, because I kept almost all of my textbooks, but I couldn't find it.

I learned more about the brain from studying psychology than anything else, and I share your interest in brain chemistry and the like. I don't have ADD but I had to take specific courses on ADD/ADHD learning styles while I was earning my credential.

Our brains are really amazing. There are a few documentaries out there that might be accessible to your learning style.

I like this site because the headlines are clear and I can find what I want to have a glance at quickly.

It will be fun to follow this thread and see what sorts of input you get.

 

[Deleted member 170540]

Here's a free psychopharmacology textbook that can be read online.

http://www.drugs.am/upload/Psychopharmacology_1244012269000.pdf

 

[ugly]

omg Polymath.

It will take me the rest of my life to read that book. Thank you for the link. It's going to be a tremendous help to me!

 

[JackiesBabyy]

I really need to get around to making a sticky for this kind of thing lol. Rang and Dale's Pharmacology is really straightforward if you want to learn on a receptor-response level. "World of the Cell", and Pratt's "Biochemistry" are good resources too.

The hardest part about pharmacology is just mastering enough of the underlying material to make heads or tails of it.

Yeah, I know a good amount about biology too and a little about chemistry, whenever I read about, say, a drug synthesis it seems so foreign to me I'd never attempt it. It took me a longggggg time, when I first came to BL and other drug forums a long time ago all of the pharmacology talk annoyed me because of all the words and terms I didn't understand. Then eventually I looked up some of words and started to figure it out. Two more years of that and here I am I've even looked at some samples of those big college text books for fun recently and to my surprise I understood like 80% of it and found it interesting. I can't really afford one though. I do now know that SSRIs aren't totally useless like I've always thought because I understand how they work(for some people), the oversimplified definition I didn't believe was "more serotonin=less depression" because they immediately increase serotonin in the brain yet takes weeks to work XD