How to Use psychopharmacology in a Sentence

psychopharmacology

noun
  • Then, seemingly overnight, psychopharmacology changed much of that.
    — Scott Shannon, Wired, 18 May 2021
  • 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
  • At the outset of his career, Lichtenberg was taken with the promise of psychopharmacology.
    — New York Times, 17 May 2022
  • The new neuro-psychopharmacology lab will help scientists understand how these substances really work, and doctors hope the research will also shed light on triggers of substance abuse.
    — Carolyn Gusoff, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The advent of modern psychopharmacology and the rise of short-term cognitive behavioral therapy made Freud’s clinical legacy seem to many fuzzy, or worse, quaint.
    — Joseph Bernstein, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Psychedelics aren’t just an exciting development in psychopharmacology.
    — John Semley, The New Republic, 8 Mar. 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
  • If, as your book argues, when psychedelics came to play a role in hedonism and countercultural values in the ’60s and ’70s, this was the end of an era rather than a new beginning — how does that illuminate our current era of psychopharmacology?
    — David Lipset, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • As a result of the serendipitous discovery of iproniazid as an antidepressant and the ensuing advances in psychiatric drugs, the 1950s are considered the golden decade of psychopharmacology.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2016
  • 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
  • Ciara McCabe, professor of neuroscience, psychopharmacology and mental health at the University of Reading, told Adventure that learning itself can lift mood and self-esteem.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 29 May 2026
  • Lacking psychopharmacology, Schumann turned to psychosymphonicology during his decade devoted to orchestral music.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 29 May 2018
  • 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

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