I am doing a 5-10page paper on the chemical effects of psychotropic drugs for an Intro Chem course. I am having a hard time because I keep running into psychological effects on the brain (which isn't bad, but not what I am looking for), but shockingly I can't find much on the actual chemical compositions and biochemical reactions of such drugs. I think I am looking in the wrong places. Should I be looking more at pharmacology and botany instead of psych. and biology? I want sources at the level between the grad. school theses and the "don't do drugs" stuff.
2007-03-14 10:19:55 · 2 answers · asked by cookiesrme 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
I can see your frustration. You will have a hard time finding any biochemical reaction pathways for psychotrotic drugs, and if you do, you probably won't understand what they mean anyway - you'd have to have an advanced degree in pharmacology and microbiology to understand what they are taking about, and then it would say something like "blocks a T1- receptor site on a gamma E1µ-amine neuro-receptor" - or something like that.
But, that will only be for drugs that have been studied and classified as potential pharmaceuticals. Most of the other data (like the military studies on LSD, for example) and other agents are not available, or burried in technical or government reports, that you will have a hard time finding.
If I were you - I'd make a list of the drugs I want to investigate, find out their name and structures, and then go the Chem Abstracts and do a search for "pyschotropic activity" and "biochemical metabolism" and then one on "general pchological effects".
Amass all the data - and that should give you AT LEAST 10 pages of data for a report!
Happy searching!
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