Drugs enter psychiatry how drugs work on the brain diagnosing mental illness diagnosing schizophrenia causes of schizophrenia treatment of schizophrenia how antipsychotic drugs work side effects of antipsychotic drugs diagnosing mood disorders psychosocial and biological correlates of depression treating depression with tricycic antidepressants other treatments . The message of this book is that psychiatrists have some very good drugs but can expect bad results when they are over used prescribed outside of evidence based indications or given to the wrong patients while acknowledging that many current agents are highly effective and have revolutionized the treatment of certain disorders joel paris criticizes their use outside of an evidence base too many patients are either over medicated or are misdiagnosed to justify aggressive treatment dr . Psychotropic drugs create abnormalities in brain function stephen hyman former director of the nimh 1996 o psychiatric medications create perturbations in neurotransmitter functions o in response the brain goes through a series of compensatory adaptations in. This article covers the renaissance of classical psychedelic drugs such as psilocybin and lsd plus 34 methylene dioxymethamphetamine mdma ecstasy in psychiatric research these drugs were used quite extensively before they became prohibited this ban had little impact on recreational use but effectively stopped research and clinical treatments which up to that point had looked very promising in several areas of psychiatry in the past decade a number of groups have been working to re