Behavioral pharmacology

Japanese: behavioral pharmacology(英語表記)behavioralpharmacology
Behavioral pharmacology

...There were also works such as De Quincey's Confessions of an Opium Addict (1822) and Baudelaire's Artificial Paradise (1860), but these only observed the effects of drugs in detail and did not explain the mechanism of action, so the scientific study of psychotropic drugs should be considered to have begun in 1952, the year when psychopharmacology began. Behavioral pharmacology developed as a branch of psychopharmacology, and together with the just-emerging ethology of K. Lorenz and others, it made a great contribution to elucidating the psychology of animals and humans.
[Psychotropic drugs and mental illness]
The greatest contribution of psychotropic drugs is that they have made it possible to treat mental disorders, enabling patients who had previously been isolated and confined to their homes, with few treatment options available, to quickly return to society.

From [Psychopharmacology]

…That is, it is a science that examines the physiological effects, absorption, metabolism, excretion, and therapeutic applications of drugs that affect the mind. When the emphasis is on the effects on behavior, it is called behavioral pharmacology. While pharmacology uses methods from physiology and biochemistry, psychopharmacology is characterized by the use of methods from psychology, psychiatry, behavioral science, etc. in addition to those. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "behavioral pharmacology" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ド・クインシーの《アヘン常用者の告白》(1822)やボードレールの《人工楽園》(1860)もあるが,これらは薬の効果を詳しく観察したにとどまり,作用のしくみを解明できなかったので,向精神薬が科学的に研究されはじめたのは1952年の精神薬理学スタートの年とすべきであろう。精神薬理学の一分野として行動薬理学behavioral pharmacologyが発達し,ちょうど現れてきたK.ローレンツらによる動物行動学と手を携えて,動物やヒトの心理の解明に大きな貢献をすることになった。
[向精神薬と精神病]
 向精神薬の最大の貢献は精神障害を治せるようになったことであり,それまでほとんど治療手段がなくて隔離監禁放置されていた患者が速やかに社会復帰できるようになった。…

【精神薬理学】より

…つまり,心を動かす薬の,生理的影響,吸収,代謝,排出,治療への応用,などを調べる学問である。行動への影響に重点をおくときは行動薬理学behavioral pharmacologyと呼ぶ。薬理学が生理学や生化学の方法を使うのに対して,精神薬理学はそれらのほかに心理学,精神医学,行動学などの方法を使う点に特色がある。…

※「behavioral pharmacology」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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