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Ace your Regis College NU643 Advanced Psychopharmacology exams in 2025/2026. This bundle includes Exam 2, 3, and the Final with 100% correct solutions for anxiety, bipolar, and insomnia medications.

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EXAM 2, EXAM 3 & FINAL EXAM: NU643 / NU 643

(LATEST UPDATES STUDY BUNDLE

PACKAGE WITH SOLUTIONS) ADVANCED

PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY | QUESTIONS AND

ANSWERS | GRADE A | 100% CORRECT - REGIS

mygdala .....ANSWER.....controls anxiety/fear/worry - anxiety

d/o, phobias, PTSD, result from malfunctions w/n these circuits.

Flight or fight - motor response - PAG (periaqueductal gray)

located in brain stem

Locus Coeruleus .....ANSWER.....Home of noradrenergic cell

bodies

Autonomic response

Inc BP, Inc HR, Inc RR,

- Prolonged activation = inc risk of atherosclerosis, MI, CAD,

Stroke,

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fear amygdala. .....ANSWER.....Motor response = brain

stem(periaqueductal gray) - fight or flight

Endocrine response = hypothalamus

Fear conditioning .....ANSWER.....associate feat with neutral

stimulus

VMPFC and hippocampus info passes to amygdala

Amygdala can remember stimuli w/ glutamate transmission

Glutamate .....ANSWER.....inhibitory stimuli

conditioned-fear response .....ANSWER.....Memories do not get

erased but can be rewired

Anxiety can be suppressed but IS NOT REMOVED ENTIRELY

Fear extinction .....ANSWER.....progressive reduction of response

to stimuli to reduce symptoms

first-line treatment for GAD .....ANSWER.....SSRIs, SNRIs

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Thomas L. Schwartz Practical Psychopharmacology
Publisher: 06 juli 2017 ISBN: 9781138902534 Edition: 1

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