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Test Banks For Kaplan and Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry: Behavioral Sciences/Clinical Psychiatry 11th Edition by Benjamin J. Sadock, 9781609139711, Chapter 1-37 CompleteA+ Guide

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m6 theory that depression primarily involves which of the following neurotransmitters?
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m6 that the therapeutic action of psychotropic drugs is the result of their effect on:
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aThe temporal lobe; especially Wernickes area
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b Dendrites and their ability to transmit electrical impulses
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c The regulation of neurotransmitters especially dopamine
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d The peripheral nervous system sensitivity to the psychotropic medications
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4. A student nurse mutters that it seems entirely unnecessary to have to struggle
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m6 with understanding the anatomy and physiology of the neurologic system. The mentor
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m6 (d)Necessary for planning psychiatric care for all patients especially those
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5. A patient asks the nurse, My wife has breast cancer. Could it be caused by
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m6 her chronic depression? Which response is supported by research data? 1. Too
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m6 much stress has been proven to cause all kinds of cancer.
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B Detecting auditory stimuli
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c Receiving visual images
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d Processing associations
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7. At admission, the nurse learns that some time ago the patient had an infarct in
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m6 the right cerebral cortex. During assessment, the nurse would expect to find that
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