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good morning my name is professor losh and today we are going to be discussing chapter 4 the biological basis for understanding pharmacology as the psychiatric nurse you have to have a basic understanding of how that brain works and what the current theories are regarding mental illness today we'll be talking about medications that are used to treat mental illness a concept known as psycho pharmacology and it's related to those theories the medications that we use in psychopharmacology directly affect the central nervous system also the client's Behavior perceptions thinking and emotions these drugs used to treat mental disturbances can provide symptom relief but they can also interfere with other activities of the brain psychiatric illness itself is caused by a multitude of factors this can include things like genetics neurodevelopmental issues drugs infection and our response to some trauma or some abnormal experience that we've seen psychiatric illness results in an alteration in ne