Variant of CIP 2000 - NGS University-level Historical Groupings

2 - Social Sciences, Psychology and Law

26 - Psychology and Cognitive and Behavioural Sciences

42. - Psychology

This series comprises instructional programs that focus on the scientific study of the behaviour of individuals, independently or collectively, and the physical and environmental bases of mental, emotional, and neurological activity.

42.24 - Psychopharmacology

This subseries comprises instructional program class 42.2401.

42.2401 - Psychopharmacology

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the study of the behavioural effects of medications, drugs, nutrients, and chemicals (including natural and artificial toxins) in laboratory and clinical settings. These programs include courses in pharmacology, behavioural toxicology and pharmacology, neuroscience, physiology, clinical psychopharmacology, substance abuse treatments and antidotes, neurochemical mechanisms, epidemiology of chemicals and substances, biochemical interactions, and psychoactive drugs.

• Example Program Names:

  • Psychopharmacology

• Exclusion

  • Pharmacology(26.1001)
  • Neuropharmacology(26.1003)
  • Pharmacology and toxicology(26.1007)
  • Substance abuse counselling(51.1501)