NR 546 Psychopharmacology for the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Midterm Exam |Questions With Verified Answers

NR 546 Psychopharmacology for the Psychiatric-
Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Midterm Exam
|Questions With Verified Answers
• Mania - ANSWER: Diagnosis with psychosis as a feature

• Depression - ANSWER: Diagnosis with psychosis as a feature

• Cognitive disorders - ANSWER: Diagnosis with psychosis as a feature

• Dementia - ANSWER: Diagnosis with psychosis as a feature

• Hallucinations - ANSWER: Positive symptom of psychosis

• Delusions - ANSWER: Positive symptom of psychosis

• Thought disorder - ANSWER: Positive symptom of psychosis

• Hostility - ANSWER: Positive symptom of psychosis

• Excitability - ANSWER: Positive symptom of psychosis

• Affective flattening - ANSWER: Negative symptom of psychosis

• Alogia - ANSWER: Negative symptom of psychosis

• Anhedonia - ANSWER: Negative symptom of psychosis

• Amotivation - ANSWER: Negative symptom of psychosis

• Asociality - ANSWER: Negative symptom of psychosis

• Mesocortical and ventromedial prefrontal cortex - ANSWER: Brain areas
associated with negative and affective symptoms

• Dorsolateral - ANSWER: Brain area associated with cognitive symptoms

• Orbitofrontal and connections to the amygdala - ANSWER: Brain area
associated with aggressive, impulsive symptoms

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, NR 546 Psychopharmacology for the Psychiatric-
Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Midterm Exam
|Questions With Verified Answers
• Frontal Lobes - ANSWER: Responsible for movement, intelligence, abstract
thinking, etc.

• Parietal Lobe (Middle Brain) - ANSWER: Responsible for proprioception and
somatic senses

• Parietal Lobe - ANSWER: Damage causes asterogenesis, the loss of ability to
recognize objects via touch

• Temporal Lobe - ANSWER: Involved in short-term memory, speech, auditory
signals, and smell recognition

• Occipital Lobe - ANSWER: Controls visual processing and visual memories

• Central sulcus - ANSWER: Separates the frontal lobe from the parietal lobe

• Corpus callosum - ANSWER: Controls communication between the two brain
hemispheres

• Hippocampus - ANSWER: Involved in anxiety, memory, and shifting short-term
to long-term memory

• Amygdala - ANSWER: Involved in emotional regulation and perception of
odors

• Thalamus - ANSWER: Involved in sensory organ and motor command
processing

• Basal ganglia - ANSWER: Involved in voluntary motor movements, cognition,
and emotion

• Dorsal striatum - ANSWER: Involved in complex motor actions and linkage of
cognition to motor actions

• Nucleus accumbens - ANSWER: Involved in the reward circuit and reinforces
addictive behaviors

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