PART 1 UNDERSTANDING PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
THE BASICS 43 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS 2025/2026
polarization occurred within psychiatry between those advocating psychological
theories (primarily psychodynamic and behavioral models) and those on the other
side of the fence using biological and medical models. - CORRECT ANSWER From
the mid-1960s through the 1970s,
Recognition of the importance of varied treatments and collaboration among
professionals from different disciplines. - CORRECT ANSWER integrative
approaches
the front of developing the first systemic nomologic system while laid the
foundation for all later diagnostic schemas (such as the DSM) - CORRECT ANSWER
Emil Krapelin (1856-1926)
French neurologist who believed that hysterical conversation symptoms were
undoubtedly due to some type of central nervous system lesion. Said lesions
"mysteriously" disappeared at time of death. Contributed to the presumption that
brain pathology was underlie to metal illness. - CORRECT ANSWER Jean Marin
Charcot
Therapies that produce bodily changes. Used by psychologists with a biological
orientation.
Malaria Therapy (1917), insulin shock (1927), psychosurgery (1936),
electroconvulsive treatment/act (1938) - CORRECT ANSWER Somatic Therapies
, he noted that none of the preparations cured mental illness, that they were for
short-term used and that a number of them could lead to problems with addiction
( Fort Agitation: Opium, Morphine, Scopolamine, Hashish. To Produce Sleep:
Chloral Hydrate, Ether, Alcohol, Chloroform, Bromides) - CORRECT ANSWER
Kraepelin on pharmaceuticals for treating mentally ill
Antipsychotic medication that was trialed in 1951 and received approval for use in
1954 in the United States. The first major breakthrough in psychopharmacology -
CORRECT ANSWER Thorazine (chlorpromazine)
First Antidepressant (1952) - iproniazid. First tricyclic antidepressant (1945) -
imipramine (Tofranil). First minor tranquilizer (1955) - meprobamate followed
shortly by the safer benzodiazepine, chlordiazepoxide in 1958. Originally used as a
sedative and began treatment for bipolar disorder (early 1960s) lithium
carbonate. - CORRECT ANSWER Psychotropic medications discovered during the
1950s
inferred the existence of the synapse (the small space separating individual nerve
cells) as early as 1906, the specific details of synaptic transmission were not fully
understood for many decades. - CORRECT ANSWER C.S. Sherrington
Pro-medication - argument in favor of medication treatment
Pro-psychotherapy - argument in favor of psychotherapy as treatment - CORRECT
ANSWER During the early 1960s there was controversy and dissention in
professionals regarding medication in treatment these two schools of thought
were:
THE BASICS 43 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS 2025/2026
polarization occurred within psychiatry between those advocating psychological
theories (primarily psychodynamic and behavioral models) and those on the other
side of the fence using biological and medical models. - CORRECT ANSWER From
the mid-1960s through the 1970s,
Recognition of the importance of varied treatments and collaboration among
professionals from different disciplines. - CORRECT ANSWER integrative
approaches
the front of developing the first systemic nomologic system while laid the
foundation for all later diagnostic schemas (such as the DSM) - CORRECT ANSWER
Emil Krapelin (1856-1926)
French neurologist who believed that hysterical conversation symptoms were
undoubtedly due to some type of central nervous system lesion. Said lesions
"mysteriously" disappeared at time of death. Contributed to the presumption that
brain pathology was underlie to metal illness. - CORRECT ANSWER Jean Marin
Charcot
Therapies that produce bodily changes. Used by psychologists with a biological
orientation.
Malaria Therapy (1917), insulin shock (1927), psychosurgery (1936),
electroconvulsive treatment/act (1938) - CORRECT ANSWER Somatic Therapies
, he noted that none of the preparations cured mental illness, that they were for
short-term used and that a number of them could lead to problems with addiction
( Fort Agitation: Opium, Morphine, Scopolamine, Hashish. To Produce Sleep:
Chloral Hydrate, Ether, Alcohol, Chloroform, Bromides) - CORRECT ANSWER
Kraepelin on pharmaceuticals for treating mentally ill
Antipsychotic medication that was trialed in 1951 and received approval for use in
1954 in the United States. The first major breakthrough in psychopharmacology -
CORRECT ANSWER Thorazine (chlorpromazine)
First Antidepressant (1952) - iproniazid. First tricyclic antidepressant (1945) -
imipramine (Tofranil). First minor tranquilizer (1955) - meprobamate followed
shortly by the safer benzodiazepine, chlordiazepoxide in 1958. Originally used as a
sedative and began treatment for bipolar disorder (early 1960s) lithium
carbonate. - CORRECT ANSWER Psychotropic medications discovered during the
1950s
inferred the existence of the synapse (the small space separating individual nerve
cells) as early as 1906, the specific details of synaptic transmission were not fully
understood for many decades. - CORRECT ANSWER C.S. Sherrington
Pro-medication - argument in favor of medication treatment
Pro-psychotherapy - argument in favor of psychotherapy as treatment - CORRECT
ANSWER During the early 1960s there was controversy and dissention in
professionals regarding medication in treatment these two schools of thought
were:
