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Psychopharmacology for the
Psychiatric-Mental Health
Nurse Practitioner
1. Drug metabolism is influenced by client factors sterm-42uch as
Answer age, smok- ing, caffeine intake, or other medications.
2. Glutamate
Answer Most abundant, principle excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain,
constituting 60% of all neurotransmitters
3. Glutamate plays a major role in &
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Answer leaning & memory in the CNS
4. Main on switch, excitatory
Answer Glutamate
5. Non-essential amino acid that does not cross the brain barrier
Answer Glu- tamate
6. Decussation happens in glutamate pathway 2. describe decussation
Answer cross- ing to the other side of the body. causing muscles to contract. Due
to decussation, a stroke on one side of the cortex will will cause weakness on the
opposite side of the body.
7. The vental statium has glutamate input from the ,
,&
Answer prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, and the amygdala which are all
critical components of the reward circuitry
8. Too much glutamate causes
Answer Parkinsons disease, Alzheimers Disease, & Hunt- ingtons Disease
9. Cerebellum controls
Answer motor coordination
10. Name the 3 types of ionotropic glutamate receptors
Answer 1.alpha amino 3 hy- droxy 5 methyl 4 isoxazolepropionic (AMPA)
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Psychopharmacology for the
Psychiatric-Mental Health
Nurse Practitioner
1. Drug metabolism is influenced by client factors sterm-42uch as
Answer age, smok- ing, caffeine intake, or other medications.
2. Glutamate
Answer Most abundant, principle excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain,
constituting 60% of all neurotransmitters
3. Glutamate plays a major role in &
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Answer leaning & memory in the CNS
4. Main on switch, excitatory
Answer Glutamate
5. Non-essential amino acid that does not cross the brain barrier
Answer Glu- tamate
6. Decussation happens in glutamate pathway 2. describe decussation
Answer cross- ing to the other side of the body. causing muscles to contract. Due
to decussation, a stroke on one side of the cortex will will cause weakness on the
opposite side of the body.
7. The vental statium has glutamate input from the ,
,&
Answer prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, and the amygdala which are all
critical components of the reward circuitry
8. Too much glutamate causes
Answer Parkinsons disease, Alzheimers Disease, & Hunt- ingtons Disease
9. Cerebellum controls
Answer motor coordination
10. Name the 3 types of ionotropic glutamate receptors
Answer 1.alpha amino 3 hy- droxy 5 methyl 4 isoxazolepropionic (AMPA)
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