Introductory neuropharmacology; pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and drug development; the application and evaluation of drug treatment in psychiatric practice; anxiolytics, sedatives and hypnotics; affective disorders: antidepressants, lithium, electroconvulsive therapy; neuroleptics and the treatment of schizophrenia; seizures, behaviour and anti-epileptic therapy; psychopharmacology in child psychiatry; drug treatments for the elderly; pharmacological aspects of drugs of abuse; the drug treatment of personality and sexual disorders; adverse reactions to, and interactions with, psychotropic drugs - mechanisms, methods of assessment and medicolegal considerations.
