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NSG 552- PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY QUIZ
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The study of the use of psychotropic medications in the treatment of psychiatric disorders: - CORRECT
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ANS✔✔Psychopharmacology
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The study of what the body does to drugs: - CORRECT ANS✔✔Pharmacokinetics
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The study of what the drugs does to the body: - CORRECT ANS✔✔Pharmacodynamics
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Involves the absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of meds: - CORRECT ANS✔✔First Pass
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Metabolism (C.Y.P. 450)
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Increase serum levels of other drugs that are substrates of that enzyme: - CORRECT ANS✔✔Enzyme
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inhibitors will slow down metabolism causing toxic levels
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Decreases serum levels of other drugs that are substrates of that enzyme: - CORRECT ANS✔✔Enzyme
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inducers cause fast metabolism and create subtherapeutic drug levels
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Part of the brain that regulates powerful emotions such as fear, rage, sexual desires: - CORRECT
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ANS✔✔Amygdala
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,The relay station for sensory information: - CORRECT ANS✔✔Thalamus
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Essential for maintaining homeostasis, controls basic needs such as sleep- wake cycles: - CORRECT
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ANS✔✔Hypothalamus
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This lobe is involved in executive functioning, high order planning, speech and motivation: - CORRECT
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ANS✔✔Frontal Lobe/ Prefrontal cortex
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Derived from Tryptophan and made in the Ralphe Nuclei: - CORRECT ANS✔✔Serotonin
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Made in the Locus Ceruleus and involved in the noradrenergic pathways: - CORRECT
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ANS✔✔Norepinephrine
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90% of serotonin receptors are found in the: - CORRECT ANS✔✔GI tract
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Produced in the V.T.A. (Reward Pathway) and involved in the four major pathways: - CORRECT
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ANS✔✔Dopamine
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Dopamine inhibits prolactin in this pathway: - CORRECT ANS✔✔Tuberoinfundibular
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Increase dopamine in this pathway is associated with positive symptoms: - CORRECT ANS✔✔Mesolimbic
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Pathway
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Decrease dopamine in this pathway is associated with negative symptoms: - CORRECT
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ANS✔✔Mesocortical Pathway
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Decrease dopamine in this pathway produces motor symptoms: - CORRECT ANS✔✔Nigrostriatal Pathway
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Main inhibitory neurotransmitter that induces calmness and relaxation: - CORRECT ANS✔✔Gamma-
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aminobutyric acid (GABA), Off switch
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, Main excitatory neurotransmitter: - CORRECT ANS✔✔Glutamate, On Switch
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Major organ that breaks down drugs in the body: - CORRECT ANS✔✔Liver
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Electrolyte imbalance commonly associated with psychotropic medication use: - CORRECT
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ANS✔✔Hyponatremia
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The time needed to clear 50% if drugs from the plasma: - CORRECT ANS✔✔Half-life
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The process of becoming desensitized and less responsive to a particular medication dose overtime
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necessitating an increase: - CORRECT ANS✔✔Tolerance
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A ration describing toxic dose to effective dose: - CORRECT ANS✔✔Therapeutic Index
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A chemical that binds to a receptor to produce a biologic response: - CORRECT ANS✔✔Agonist
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A chemical that binds to a receptor but does not fully activate the receptor: - CORRECT ANS✔✔Partial
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Agonist
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A chemical that binds to a receptor, blocking it to inhibit a biologic response: - CORRECT
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ANS✔✔Antagonist
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An agent that binds to the same receptor as an agonist but induces an opposite biological response: -
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CORRECT ANS✔✔Inverse Agonist
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A usually undesired but foreseeable effect that occurs regardless of dose and often resolves after continued
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therapy: - CORRECT ANS✔✔Side Effects
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S/S opposite of what it was meant to treat: - CORRECT ANS✔✔Paradoxical Reaction
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