Paper Assignment: Applied Psychopharmacology
Your paper will be an exercise in creativity. You will need to create a hypothetical drug that does not yet exist. Below are suggested steps to identifying what drug you should create.
1. Identify a disease or disorder that does not have an adequate pharmaceutical treatment. It may be that no drugs exist to treat this condition or that the drugs are not maximally effective or that they have too many side effects.
2. Identify what drug you think would adequately treat the condition. You'll need to specify what mechanism of action it would have and why you are targeting that neurotransmitter/receptor (there should be a rationale for choosing the neurotransmitter/receptor and not a random guess).
3. Identify the route by which the drug should be taken.
4. Attempt to approximate what pharmacological effects (behavioral or physiological) it would have. What benefits are patients likely to see? What side effects are they likely to see? Why do you predict these benefits/side effects?
5. Identify any predicted drug interactions that patients should be aware of.
You should use what you know about other drug classes, effects of individual drugs, effects of different target neurotransmitters/receptors, and symptoms of your chosen condition to provide the reasons for creating this drug and why you expect the predicted outcomes.
Format your assignment according to the give formatting requirements:
1. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.