title: [Psychotropic drugs and mechanisms of mood regulation].
abstract: Pharmaco-psychiatry has contributed to the study of mood regulation mechanisms (thymo-regulation). Anti-manic neuroleptics may induce depressions: anti-depressants may cause mood inversion (with artificial "bipolarity"), and lithium has an action upon alternating disorders of the mood. Correlations with the extrapyramidal syndromes are to be noted: parkinsonism going along with depression, and the antiparkinsonian action with the stimulation of mood. The extent of the role played by neuro-hormones, beta-inhibitors, and releasing-factors is still under discussion. The theoretical notion of mood regualtion makes it possible to single out a special type of psycho-stimulation implying manifold applications.
mesh_terms: D000928:Antidepressive Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D006801:Humans; D007980:Levodopa / Q000494:pharmacology; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013950:Thymus Gland / Q000187:drug effects; D013973:Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone / Q000494:pharmacology; D014149:Tranquilizing Agents / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D000928:Antidepressive Agents; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs; D014149:Tranquilizing Agents; D007980:Levodopa; D013973:Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone
vernacular_title: Médicaments psychotropes et mécanismes de régulation de l'humeur