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psychopharmacological

psychopharmacological adjective: of or pertaining to psychopharmacology, the interactions between pharmaceuticals and the brain.

Adjective

psychopharmacological (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to psychopharmacology, the interactions between pharmaceuticals and the brain
    • Three of the crack-related homicides were attributed to the psychopharmacological consequences of ingesting crack (increased violence, excitability, and irrationality), and eight homicides were attributed to the economic compulsion to engage in crime in order to subsidize drug use.2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 4, in Illusion of Order
    • As a compromise in an age of psychopharmacological doubt, this seems about right.2009 January 25, Vanessa Grigoriadis, “Checking In”, in New York Times

Synonyms of psychopharmacological

Origin of psychopharmacological

From psychopharmacology + -ical.

Words formed from psychopharmacological

Questions about psychopharmacological

What does psychopharmacological mean?
Psychopharmacological means of or pertaining to psychopharmacology, the interactions between pharmaceuticals and the brain.
What part of speech is psychopharmacological?
Psychopharmacological is an adjective.

Words near psychopharmacological in the dictionary

  1. psychopharmaceutic
  2. psychopharmaceutical
  3. psychopharmaceuticals
  4. psychopharmaceutics
  5. psychopharmacologic
  6. psychopharmacological
  7. psychopharmacologically
  8. psychopharmacologist
  9. psychopharmacologists
  10. psychopharmacology
  11. psychopharmacotherapeutic

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