LMR GEORGETTE PMHNP LATEST EXAM TESTED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Serotonin is associated with - ✔✔sleep and mood disorder
✔✔Dopamine is made in - ✔✔substantia nigra, central tegmental area, ventral
tegmental area,
✔✔Dopamine is associated with - ✔✔addiction and psychosis
✔✔Acetylcholine is made - ✔✔basal nucleus of Meynert
✔✔Most abundant inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain - ✔✔GABA
I don't have enough GABA, my anxiety is high
✔✔Med used to increase GABA - ✔✔benzos
Fred flinstone needs a Zanny, Gabba dabba do.
✔✔Most excitatory neutransmitter - ✔✔glutamate
✔✔Increased level of corticotropin releasing hormone in the amygdala, hippocampus
and locus coeruleus - ✔✔increases symptoms of anxiety.
✔✔Autism - ✔✔deficits in social communication and social interaction across multiple
settings
✔✔Parents of kids with autism may report - ✔✔No response when called by name
Little or no eye contact
Children with autism often like to line up, stack, or organize objects and toys.
✔✔Screenings for autism - ✔✔ADOS
M-CHAT
ASQ
✔✔Pharm management for autism - ✔✔antipsychotics are effective for symptoms such
as tantrums, aggressive behaviors, self-injurious behaviors
✔✔Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that is implicated in sleep and mood. What area of
the brain has a large majority of serotonin neurons?
A. raphe nuclei
B. Nucleus acumbuns
C. Locus coeruleus
D. Amygdala - ✔✔raphe nuclei
,✔✔Executive functioning, thinking, planning, organizing, and problem solving, emotions,
and behavioral control, personality - ✔✔frontal lobe
✔✔memory, understanding, language - ✔✔temporal lobe
✔✔Both hemispheres of the brain are connected by the - ✔✔corpus callosum
✔✔Area of sensorimotor information exchange between two hemispheres - ✔✔corpus
callosum
✔✔When there is disturbances in clock drawing test, which hemisphere is compromised
- ✔✔right hemisphere/right parietal lobe
✔✔Area for expressive speech - ✔✔frontal lobe
Broca's Area
✔✔Problems in the frontal lobe can lead to - ✔✔personality changes, emotional
changes, and intellectual changes, social skills problems, and behavior changes
✔✔Area for receptive speech and language comprehension - ✔✔Temporal lobe
Wernicke's area
✔✔Problems in the temporal lobe can lead to - ✔✔auditory hallucinations, aphasia, and
amnesia
✔✔Occipital lobe - ✔✔primary visual area
✔✔problems in the occipital lobe can lead to - ✔✔Visual field deficits, blindness and
visual hallucinations.
✔✔primary sensory area of the brain - ✔✔parietal lobe
✔✔problems in the parietal lobe can lead to - ✔✔Sensory-perceptual disturbances and
agnosia(inability to perceive objects)
R-L confusion
Difficulty writing (agraphia)
Aphasia(difficulty of language)
✔✔Cerebellum is responsible for - ✔✔gross motor skills
fine motor skills
balance
✔✔A client experiencing difficulties with working memory, planning, and prioritizing,
insight into his problems, and impulse control presents for assessment. In planning his
, care, the PMHNP should apply his knowledge that these symptoms represent problems
with the
A. frontal lobe
B. Temporal lobe
C. Parietal lobe
D. Occipital lobe - ✔✔frontal lobe
✔✔Impairments in the clock drawing test can be associated with - ✔✔damage to the
right parietal lobe
✔✔What part of the brain is responsible for regulating emotions?
A. Wernicke's area
B. Occipital lobe
C. Hippocampus
D. Parietal lobe - ✔✔Hippocampus
✔✔Limbic system responsible for - ✔✔emotions and memory
✔✔Hypothalamus - ✔✔appetite, hunger, water balance, circadian rhythms, libido,
hormonal regulation
✔✔thalamus - ✔✔sensory relay for smell
emotions, memory, and regulated affective behaviors
✔✔amygdala - ✔✔regulated emotion
mediates mood
emotional memories/meanings, fear, anxiety, stress emotion, aggression
✔✔substantia nigra - ✔✔motor movements
✔✔amygdala= - ✔✔emotional memory
✔✔Which of these brain structures puts emotional meaning on a stimulus, forms,
emotional memories and is involved with rage and fear - ✔✔amygdala
✔✔A client presents with complaints of changes in appetite, feeling fatigued, problems
with sleep-rest cycle, and changes in libido. What is the neuroanatomical areas off the
brain that is responsible for the regulation of these functions? - ✔✔Hypothalamus
✔✔Which serotonin receptor antagonism makes an antipsychotic "atypical" - ✔✔5HT2A
✔✔Excess dopamine in this area causes positive schizophrenic symptoms -
✔✔meoslimbic pathway
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Serotonin is associated with - ✔✔sleep and mood disorder
✔✔Dopamine is made in - ✔✔substantia nigra, central tegmental area, ventral
tegmental area,
✔✔Dopamine is associated with - ✔✔addiction and psychosis
✔✔Acetylcholine is made - ✔✔basal nucleus of Meynert
✔✔Most abundant inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain - ✔✔GABA
I don't have enough GABA, my anxiety is high
✔✔Med used to increase GABA - ✔✔benzos
Fred flinstone needs a Zanny, Gabba dabba do.
✔✔Most excitatory neutransmitter - ✔✔glutamate
✔✔Increased level of corticotropin releasing hormone in the amygdala, hippocampus
and locus coeruleus - ✔✔increases symptoms of anxiety.
✔✔Autism - ✔✔deficits in social communication and social interaction across multiple
settings
✔✔Parents of kids with autism may report - ✔✔No response when called by name
Little or no eye contact
Children with autism often like to line up, stack, or organize objects and toys.
✔✔Screenings for autism - ✔✔ADOS
M-CHAT
ASQ
✔✔Pharm management for autism - ✔✔antipsychotics are effective for symptoms such
as tantrums, aggressive behaviors, self-injurious behaviors
✔✔Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that is implicated in sleep and mood. What area of
the brain has a large majority of serotonin neurons?
A. raphe nuclei
B. Nucleus acumbuns
C. Locus coeruleus
D. Amygdala - ✔✔raphe nuclei
,✔✔Executive functioning, thinking, planning, organizing, and problem solving, emotions,
and behavioral control, personality - ✔✔frontal lobe
✔✔memory, understanding, language - ✔✔temporal lobe
✔✔Both hemispheres of the brain are connected by the - ✔✔corpus callosum
✔✔Area of sensorimotor information exchange between two hemispheres - ✔✔corpus
callosum
✔✔When there is disturbances in clock drawing test, which hemisphere is compromised
- ✔✔right hemisphere/right parietal lobe
✔✔Area for expressive speech - ✔✔frontal lobe
Broca's Area
✔✔Problems in the frontal lobe can lead to - ✔✔personality changes, emotional
changes, and intellectual changes, social skills problems, and behavior changes
✔✔Area for receptive speech and language comprehension - ✔✔Temporal lobe
Wernicke's area
✔✔Problems in the temporal lobe can lead to - ✔✔auditory hallucinations, aphasia, and
amnesia
✔✔Occipital lobe - ✔✔primary visual area
✔✔problems in the occipital lobe can lead to - ✔✔Visual field deficits, blindness and
visual hallucinations.
✔✔primary sensory area of the brain - ✔✔parietal lobe
✔✔problems in the parietal lobe can lead to - ✔✔Sensory-perceptual disturbances and
agnosia(inability to perceive objects)
R-L confusion
Difficulty writing (agraphia)
Aphasia(difficulty of language)
✔✔Cerebellum is responsible for - ✔✔gross motor skills
fine motor skills
balance
✔✔A client experiencing difficulties with working memory, planning, and prioritizing,
insight into his problems, and impulse control presents for assessment. In planning his
, care, the PMHNP should apply his knowledge that these symptoms represent problems
with the
A. frontal lobe
B. Temporal lobe
C. Parietal lobe
D. Occipital lobe - ✔✔frontal lobe
✔✔Impairments in the clock drawing test can be associated with - ✔✔damage to the
right parietal lobe
✔✔What part of the brain is responsible for regulating emotions?
A. Wernicke's area
B. Occipital lobe
C. Hippocampus
D. Parietal lobe - ✔✔Hippocampus
✔✔Limbic system responsible for - ✔✔emotions and memory
✔✔Hypothalamus - ✔✔appetite, hunger, water balance, circadian rhythms, libido,
hormonal regulation
✔✔thalamus - ✔✔sensory relay for smell
emotions, memory, and regulated affective behaviors
✔✔amygdala - ✔✔regulated emotion
mediates mood
emotional memories/meanings, fear, anxiety, stress emotion, aggression
✔✔substantia nigra - ✔✔motor movements
✔✔amygdala= - ✔✔emotional memory
✔✔Which of these brain structures puts emotional meaning on a stimulus, forms,
emotional memories and is involved with rage and fear - ✔✔amygdala
✔✔A client presents with complaints of changes in appetite, feeling fatigued, problems
with sleep-rest cycle, and changes in libido. What is the neuroanatomical areas off the
brain that is responsible for the regulation of these functions? - ✔✔Hypothalamus
✔✔Which serotonin receptor antagonism makes an antipsychotic "atypical" - ✔✔5HT2A
✔✔Excess dopamine in this area causes positive schizophrenic symptoms -
✔✔meoslimbic pathway
