ANCC PMHNP Exam Prep Questions with correct Answers

ANCC PMHNP Exam Prep Questions with correct Answers mesocortical pathway - Answer ️️ -executive function: attention, focus, depression nigrostriatal pathway - Answer ️️ -from substantia nigra (brainstem) to striatum (muscles): Parkinson's mesolimbic pathway - Answer ️️ -projects to nucleus accumbens (part of limbic system). Pleasure, reward, positive symptoms of schizophrenia: Addiction, gambling Tuberoinfundibular pathway - Answer ️️ -regulation of prolactin (acts on pituitary). Hypersexuality in mania Dopamine - Answer ️️ -produced in substania nigra and VTA. D2 & D4 receptors most important. Elevated in the mesolimbic pathway associated with pleasure and psychosis. Antispychotics block dopamine. travels through mesocoritcal, mesolimbic, nigrostriatal, and tuberinfundibular pathways Serotonin - Answer ️️ -5-HT. produced in raphe nucleus. emotion, impulses, dreams. 5HT2A receptors = atypical antipsychotics. Norepinephrine - Answer ️️ -produced in locus coeruleus. arousal and vigilance GABA - Answer ️️ -inhibitory. produces calm in conjunction with benzodiazepines. ACTH - Answer ️️ -motor control, learning, memory, sl