Review the medication in Stahl

Chose a medication discussed in Week 1 or Week 2. Review the medication in Stahl, S.M. (2017). Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology Prescriber’s Guide (6th Ed.).

Your initial post should discuss the medication‘s classification, pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, neurotransmitters and receptor sites involved. Be sure to discuss to if your medication is an agonist, antagonist etc and how it will affect the receptors involved.  Discuss side effects, be sure to explain why the side effects may be occurring (remember to use neuroscience and your knowledge of receptor sites). In your discussion of pharmacokinetics be sure to include the CYP 450 system. Lastly, include FDA approval and off label use for this medications. You may include any additional information you  find interesting.  It is expected that you will have sources for this discussion.

You must respond to two other students’ initial  post. Your responses are due 48 hours after the initial post’s due date.  Please respond to different medications so you will be exposed to three different medications.  Your response post should be substantive, adding to the discussion of the initial post you are responding to.   This will requires a minimum of 250 words as well as  use APA citations and references.