Exam 5: Psychopharmacology and New Drug Development

Individual differences in the initial sensitivity to a drug's effects are thought to be determined by .

Cell adaptation theory assumes that a drug's action occurs on specific cells in the central nervous system.

The American Medical Association prefers that their customers use brand-name drugs rather than generic drugs because the brand-name drugs are more rigorously tested.

is an increase in the frequency of a behavior when it results in avoidance of or escape from something.

Over repeated occasions of pairing drug taking and drug taking cues, just presenting the drug taking cues alone will elicit a drug compensatory reaction. This is an example of .

Reacquisition of tolerance following an extended period of abstinence takes as long as when tolerance to the drug was initially developed.

Setting factors are particularly important in the effects of .

Tolerance may develop to some effects of a drug, but not to others.

Which of the following is true of generic drugs?

How was penicillin discovered?

How long does the post-marketing testing of a new drug take?

tolerance is a type of functional tolerance that is measured within the course of action of a single dose or first few doses of a drug.

How are new drugs discovered, developed, and distributed? What are the different levels of testing new drugs?

In drug studies, the generalizability from animals to humans is poor.

In the development of new drugs, how many species must be tested in the animal testing phase?

What is a placebo-control experiment? Why is it often used in the study of alcohol and other drugs?

How long does the first step in new drug development--initial synthesis and preclinical trials--typically take?

Studies have shown that young men who later developed alcohol problems were more likely to be .

Which of the following is a type of functional tolerance?

According to cell adaptation theory, the cells of the become adapted to the presence of a drug with repeated exposure to it.