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Psychopharmacology, the study of the effect of drugs on the mind and behavior, has become a popular and sometimes mandatory addition to treatment regimes for canine and feline patients with behavioral problems; however, clients and practitioners should be dissuaded that behavioral drugs are 'quick fixes'.
Newer behavioral medications demonstrate the extent to which truly abnormal behavior is the result of a dysfunction in neurochemistry; synaptic or cellular metabolism; or genetic encoding to name a few. Consequently there is a clear role for the interaction of how drugs affect cellular function in the nervous system and behavioral and environmental modification.
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