http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Sat, 18 May 2013 02:30:52 PDT Sat, 18 May 2013 02:30:52 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=87835 Much of this work was previously published by Prentice Hall as Principles ofBehavioral Pharmacology. The copyrights have been assigned to the authors,C. Robin Timmons and Leonard W. Hamilton. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=401789 An interactive tuitorial for nurses about psych pharmaceuticals with quizzes and completion certificates. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=78874 Interactive demonstrations with explanations that illustrate different aspects of the functioning of the nervous system. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=87854 One section from http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/webpath.html#MENU...which is The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical EducationThe complete site description:״This electronic resource includes over 1900 images along with text, tutorials, laboratory exercises, and examination items for self-assessment that demonstrate gross andmicroscopic pathologic findings associated with human disease conditions." http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=77397 This site offers information on psychiatric drugs and claims to provide information that your psychiatrist may not. Topics covered include how psychiatric drugs work, the adverse effects of drugs on the brain, and the role of the FDA in the approval of such medications. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=379438 This site provides great animations in a tutorial format. The Learning Object (LO) is a great teaching tool because it gives a comprehensive view of drug interactions in the brain. It shows the information in an organized way to help facilitate learning. It has animations that go along with text and the user can select from 15 different languages. The user can easily choose which drug they want to learn about, and go at the pace that is best for them. This LO is also good for teaching about how the brain works because there is a comparison between the brain with and without drugs. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=82377 This site offers a variety of animations related to addiction. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=77398 The purpose of this site is to advance the debate about Thomas S. Szasz's basic ideas and their practical implications. He suggests the following summary statement as a manifesto...Thomas Szasz's Summary Statement and Manifesto ״Myth of mental illness." Mental illness is a metaphor (metaphorical disease). The word "disease" denotes a demonstrable biological process that affects the bodies of living organisms (plants, animals, and humans). The term "mental illness" refers to the undesirable thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of persons. Classifying thoughts, feelings, and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying the whale as a fish. As the whale is not a fish, mental illness is not a disease. Individuals with brain diseases (bad brains) or kidney diseases (bad kidneys) are literally sick. Individuals with mental diseases (bad behaviors), like societies with economic diseases (bad fiscal policies), are metaphorically sick. The classification of (mis)behavior as illness provides an ideological justification for state-sponsored social control as medical treatment. Separation of Psychiatry and the State. If we recognize that "mental illness" is a metaphor for disapproved thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, we are compelled to recognize as well that the primary function of Psychiatry is to control thought, mood, and behavior. Hence, like Church and State, Psychiatry and the State ought to be separated by a "wall." At the same time, the State ought not to interfere with mental health practices between consenting adults. The role of psychiatrists and mental health experts with regard to law, the school system, and other organizations ought to be similar to the role of clergymen in those situations. Presumption of competence. Because being accused of mental illness is similar to being accused of crime, we ought to presume that psychiatric "defendants" are mentally competent, just as we presume that criminal defendants are legally innocent. Individuals charged with criminal, civil, or interpersonal offenses ought never to be treated as incompetent solely on the basis of the opinion of mental health experts. Incompetence ought to be a judicial determination and the "accused" ought to have access to legal representation and a right to trial by jury. Abolition of involuntary mental hospitalization. Involuntary mental hospitalization is imprisonment under the guise of treatment; it is a covert form of social control that subverts the rule of law. No one ought to be deprived of liberty except for a criminal offense, after a trial by jury guided by legal rules of evidence. No one ought to be detained against his will in a building called "hospital," or in any other medical institution, or on the basis of expert opinion. Medicine ought to be clearly distinguished and separated from penology, treatment from punishment, the hospital from the prison. No person ought to be detained involuntarily for a purpose other than punishment or in an institution other than one formally defined as a part of the state's criminal justice system. Abolition of the insanity defense. Insanity is a legal concept involving the courtroom determination that a person is not capable of forming conscious intent and, therefore, cannot be held responsible for an otherwise criminal act. The opinions of experts about the "mental state" of defendants ought to be inadmissible in court, exactly as the opinions of experts about the "religious state" of defendants are inadmissible. No one ought to be excused of lawbreaking or any other offense on the basis of so-called expert opinion rendered by psychiatric or mental health experts. Excusing a person of responsibility for an otherwise criminal act on the basis of inability to form conscious intent is an act of legal mercy masquerading as an act of medical science. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=555034 This class examines the relationship between a number of mind-altering substances and cultural processes. We look at the relationship between drugs and such phenomena as poverty, religion, technology, inter-generational conflict, colonialism, and global capitalism. We read about the physiological and psychological effects of these substances -- ranging from alcohol to LSD, cocaine and ecstasy -- and ask why different societies prohibit and sanction different drugs. We examine the use of mind-altering substances in a number of "traditional" societies, and follow the development of a global trade in such substances as sugar, coffee, tea, nicotine, cocaine, and marijuana concurrent with the evolution of global capitalism. We look at the use of LSD as a mind-control substance by the CIA and as a mind-altering substance in the 1960's counter-culture, and we look at the rise of Prozac® and Viagra® as popular, if controversial, pharmaceutical products in recent years. Finally, we evaluate America's current drug laws. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=510789 דף מידע ובו סרטון המסביר כיצד פועל פרוזאק, תרופה כנגד דיכאון, וכיצד הוא משפיע על קליטת הנוירוטרנסמיטר סרוטונין במוח. הסרטון מקושר לאתר youtube. מופיע במדור מאגר מדע של אתר מכון דוידסון.