Abstract
The prototypes of today's psychotropic drugs were all chance discoveries. Today, however, efforts are being made to ensure a more purposeful further evolution of psychopharmacology. Impulses to this effect come from biological psychiatric research, neuroendocrinology, and pharmacokinetics. This is elucidated on the basis of examples.So far, psychotropic drugs have been prescribed according to the cookbook principle. This requires a very good memory (or vade mecum), but hardly any insight. However, the changes now in the process of occurring increasingly necessitate knowledge of biological determinants of (disturbed) behavior, both in order to practice pharmacotherapy on a professional level and in order to be able to follow and evaluate new trends. This is to be taken into account in the education and training of psychiatrists.
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