psychotropic
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8.8
- adjective
- /ˌsaɪkəˈtroʊpɪk/
- Specialized
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psicotrópico
- The effects of psychotropic drugs can vary greatly from person to person, influencing thoughts and emotions.
- psychotropic medication
- psychotropic drugs
- psychotropic substance
People who start taking powerful psychotropic illegal drugs do it as an act of voluntary will.
- People who start taking powerful psychotropic illegal drugs do it as an act of voluntary will.
- But if you give the defendant psychotropic drugs, he or she may become competent.
- In fact, strangely, the majority of plants that that are actually psychotropic, not just mood altering, are from here in the Americas.
- Whereas I think it might be true that in this country the problem may be the overuse of psychotropic drugs.
- Survivors of domestic violence, trauma and psychotropic drugs are the overwhelming norm.
- You know, they use psychotropic drugs and to influence people and brainwashed them.
- So they've they've learned these psychotropic ways, like with the toad and so on, to put people into a temporary coma, bury them.
Examples
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Participants' reluctance toward psychotropic medication can have great consequences for their overall well-being.
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Studies in which some patients received only drugs or all patients received psychotropic drugs were excluded.
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Social workers' views about psychotropic drugs may be associated with both professional and personal factors.
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At the time of the study, none of the students were reported to be taking psychotropic medication.
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At the time of the study, he was not prescribed any psychotropic medications.
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Why aren't you on some psychotropic drugs?
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There are Huxleyites who believe psychotropic drugs are for the prepared few.
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According to these data, older social workers are more concerned about psychotropic medication's potential harmfulness to youths.
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Alternatively, receipt of psychotropic medication may have mixed effects on psychosocial treatment response.
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On average, 46 percent of respondents' caseload was reportedly taking some sort of psychotropic medication.
Academic text (2006)
Synonyms
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7.0
Makes a person think or feel differently
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7.4
Something that changes how you think, feel or notice things
Antonyms
Compounds
How Psychotropic
- Specialized
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8.8
- Specialized
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7.4
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
psychotropic = tropic (semi-transparent) = psycho + tropic
The psycho- element clearly points to the mind, but the scientific base 'tropic' is specialized and not fully transparent for many learners.
Etymology
Psychotropic comes from Greek roots psychē meaning 'mind' and tropē meaning 'turning', and the psych- part is the same as in psychology. So a psychotropic drug 'turns' or changes the mind, which is why it affects mood, thoughts, or behavior.