How to Use psychopharmacology in a Sentence

psychopharmacology

noun
  • At the outset of his career, Lichtenberg was taken with the promise of psychopharmacology.
    New York Times, 17 May 2022
  • Assigned to study the effect of reserpine on serotonin in blood cells, Dr. Carlsson immersed himself in the emerging field of psychopharmacology.
    Denise Gellene, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2018
  • Despite upbeat advertising campaigns for new drugs, there have been no true breakthroughs in psychopharmacology for more than a half-century.
    Richard J. McNally, WSJ, 13 May 2022
  • Then, seemingly overnight, psychopharmacology changed much of that.
    Scott Shannon, Wired, 18 May 2021
  • The advent of psychopharmacology in the 1950s facilitated, but did not cause, the emptying of state psychiatric hospitals.
    Richard J. McNally, WSJ, 13 May 2022
  • Starting as an ordinary researcher, Dr. Ketchum moved up to chief of psychopharmacology, head of clinical research and then chief of behavioral sciences, designing and orchestrating all program research.
    Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 3 June 2019
  • In his early professional years, Dr. Sackler conducted research in the then relatively new field of psychopharmacology, or the use of medication to treat mental disorders, according to Purdue.
    Jeanne Whalen, WSJ, 21 July 2017
  • In this capacious and rigorous history of psychopharmacology, the psychologist and writer Lauren Slater says that doctors don’t really understand how psychotropic medications work or how to assess if a patient needs them.
    New York Times, 8 Mar. 2018
  • His work helped refine the definitions of certain psychiatric disorders and establish the legitimacy of treating them with drugs — a field known as psychopharmacology — along with traditional psychotherapy.
    Neil Genzlinger, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Here, more explicitly than in her portrait of Ray, Aviv joins an existing discourse about psychopharmacology, raising by now familiar concerns about the overmedication of Americans, and the impulse to treat regular human unhappiness as pathological.
    Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2022
  • There, working under Max Fink, Dr. Klein became increasingly interested in psychopharmacology, collecting data on the effects of drugs on various conditions.
    Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Psychedelics aren’t just an exciting development in psychopharmacology.
    John Semley, The New Republic, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Lacking psychopharmacology, Schumann turned to psychosymphonicology during his decade devoted to orchestral music.
    Mark Swed, latimes.com, 29 May 2018
  • Psychiatry is now nearly synonymous with psychopharmacology.
    Richard J. McNally, WSJ, 13 May 2022

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