Antipsychotics NURS 752 exam questions with answers

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Concept of 1st Gen binding thresholds - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔The degree of D2 receptor binding in the mesolimbic system
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is close to 80% to have best effects for relieving psychosis.
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PROBLEM - 1st gen don't discriminate and block D2 receptors
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everywhere in the brain. When D2 increases over 80% in the
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dorsal striatum EPS effects occur and in the pituitary
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hyperprolactemia occur. \|




Three main features of neurolepsis include: - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Psychomotor slowing, emotional quieting and
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affective indifference. \|




Positive symptoms include: - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Delusions,
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Hallucinations and Thought Disorder. \| \| \|




Negative symptoms include: - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔•Loss or
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diminution of normal function \| \| \|




•Lack•Loss or diminution of normal function \| \| \| \| \|




•Lack of motivation
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•Poverty of speech \| \|




•Blunted affect \|




•Poor self-care
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•Social withdrawal of motivation
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, Overactivity or Underactivity of the mesocortical dopamine
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systemmediate the negative, cognitive, and affective symptoms \| \| \| \| \| \| \|


of schizophrenia? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Underactivity
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Cognitive symptoms include: - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔•Disordered thinking \|




•Reduced ability to focus attention \| \| \| \|




•Prominent learning and memory difficulties \| \| \| \|




•Subtle changes may appear years before symptoms become
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florid
•Florid changes: Thinking and speech may be completely
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incomprehensible to others \| \|




Which drugs reverse effects of Parkinsonism? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔•diphenhydramine, trihexyphenidyl, and
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benztropine.


What is the first drug approved for Tardive Dyskinesia? -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Valbenazine (Ingrezza)
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symptoms of neuroleptic malignant syndrome - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔•Lead pipe" rigidity, sudden high fever, sweating,
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autonomic instability, dysrhythmias, fluctuations in blood
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pressure, altered level of consciousness, and seizures or coma
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may develop
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•Death can result from respiratory failure, cardiovascular
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collapse, dysrhythmias, and other causes
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