NR-546 Advanced Pharmacology Psychopharmacology for the Psychiatric -
Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Midterm Exam (Latest Update) Question: What diagnosis has a diagnosis of psychosis as a feature? Answer: mania depression cognitive disorders dementia Question: What are some positive symptoms? Answer: Hallucinations Delusions Thought disorder Hostility Excitability Question: What are some Negative symptoms? Answer: Affective flattening Alogia Anhedonia Amotivation Asociality Question: What area of the brain is associated with negative and affective symptoms? Answer: Mesocortical and ventromedial prefrontal cortex: Question: What area of the brain is associated with cognitive symptoms? Answer: Dorsolateral Question: What area of the brain is associated with aggressive, impulsive symptoms? Answer: Orbitofrontal and connections to the amygdala Question: Non-selectively blocks dopamine D2 receptors, specifically in mesolimbic pathway. Improves Positive Symptoms Use: Ac ute & Chronic Schizophrenia & Psychosis Answer: First generation antipsychotics Question: are associated with movement, intelligence, abstract thinking, the ability to organize, personality, behavior, and emotional control. Traumatic brain injuries can r esult in personality changes, difficulty controlling emotions, and other cognitive functions Answer: Frontal Lobes Ques tion: responsible for proprioception, is the home of the somatic senses. This part of the brain helps a person to identify spatial rela tionships, interpret pain and touch in the body, and identify and give meaning to objects Answer: Parietal Lobe (Middle Brain) Question: Damage to the anterior portion may cause asterogenesis, the loss of ability to recognize objects via the sense of tou ch. This may be experienced by patients with post cerebral vascular accidents Answer: parietal Lobe Question: and involved in short -term memory, speech, auditory signals, and smell recognition. It identifies "what" things are - object identification. It contains the limbic system, amygdala, and hippocampus. Answer: Temporal Lobe
Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Midterm Exam (Latest Update) Question: What diagnosis has a diagnosis of psychosis as a feature? Answer: mania depression cognitive disorders dementia Question: What are some positive symptoms? Answer: Hallucinations Delusions Thought disorder Hostility Excitability Question: What are some Negative symptoms? Answer: Affective flattening Alogia Anhedonia Amotivation Asociality Question: What area of the brain is associated with negative and affective symptoms? Answer: Mesocortical and ventromedial prefrontal cortex: Question: What area of the brain is associated with cognitive symptoms? Answer: Dorsolateral Question: What area of the brain is associated with aggressive, impulsive symptoms? Answer: Orbitofrontal and connections to the amygdala Question: Non-selectively blocks dopamine D2 receptors, specifically in mesolimbic pathway. Improves Positive Symptoms Use: Ac ute & Chronic Schizophrenia & Psychosis Answer: First generation antipsychotics Question: are associated with movement, intelligence, abstract thinking, the ability to organize, personality, behavior, and emotional control. Traumatic brain injuries can r esult in personality changes, difficulty controlling emotions, and other cognitive functions Answer: Frontal Lobes Ques tion: responsible for proprioception, is the home of the somatic senses. This part of the brain helps a person to identify spatial rela tionships, interpret pain and touch in the body, and identify and give meaning to objects Answer: Parietal Lobe (Middle Brain) Question: Damage to the anterior portion may cause asterogenesis, the loss of ability to recognize objects via the sense of tou ch. This may be experienced by patients with post cerebral vascular accidents Answer: parietal Lobe Question: and involved in short -term memory, speech, auditory signals, and smell recognition. It identifies "what" things are - object identification. It contains the limbic system, amygdala, and hippocampus. Answer: Temporal Lobe
