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Prepare for NR 546 Psychopharmacology for the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with focused review of essential psychopharmacology concepts. Cover medication classes, mechanisms of action, therapeutic considerations, adverse effects, monitoring, and clinical decision-making relevant to PMHNP practice.

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NR546 NR 546

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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