PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY QUIZ I QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
What is psychopharmacology?
Specifically formulating medicine to alter mind/mood/energy
Or,
Psychopharmacology is the scientific study of the effects drugs have on mood,
sensation, thinking, and behavior.
What does it mean to "escape snake oil" within the context of
psychopharmacology?
Taking an unbiased, scientific approach. Being mindful of intentional deception,
measuring the wrong thing, and the placebo effect
What is intentional deception?
Making up data AND/OR cherry picking findings
What does it mean to measure the wrong thing?
Focusing on stories, mechanisms, ideas, rather than outcomes AND/OR measuring
meaningful improvement in lives
,What does it mean to be a good psychopharmacologist?
Using good medicine (medicine that reduces suffering and/or improves
functionality AND understanding the biology of medicine.
What are the four main lobes and their respective functions?
Frontal Lobe: reasoning, decision making, problem solving, motor control,
executive functioning
Parietal Lobe: proprioception, pain, position, pressure
Occipital lobe: visual processing
Temporal Lobe: auditory, speech, emotions, and memory
What are the six parts of the limbic system and their respective functions?
Amygdala: fight or flight
Hippocampus: memory
Mammillary Body: recollective memory **
Cingulate cortex: sees errors and corrects **
, Basal Ganglia: coordinated movement
Nucleus Accubens: reward center
What are neurotransmitters?
Chemicals that transmit a signal from one neuron to another cell across a synapse
by activating a receptor
What is Glutamate?
Glutamate is an excitatory NT. Go!
Modified amino acid
Excess glutamate leads to cell death (think about the excess energy and how that
can lead to a cell become warn out, so it dies)
What is GABA?
GABA is an inhibitory NT. STOP!
Modified amino acid.
What is norepinephrine?
Monoamine
Key player in stress response
AND CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
What is psychopharmacology?
Specifically formulating medicine to alter mind/mood/energy
Or,
Psychopharmacology is the scientific study of the effects drugs have on mood,
sensation, thinking, and behavior.
What does it mean to "escape snake oil" within the context of
psychopharmacology?
Taking an unbiased, scientific approach. Being mindful of intentional deception,
measuring the wrong thing, and the placebo effect
What is intentional deception?
Making up data AND/OR cherry picking findings
What does it mean to measure the wrong thing?
Focusing on stories, mechanisms, ideas, rather than outcomes AND/OR measuring
meaningful improvement in lives
,What does it mean to be a good psychopharmacologist?
Using good medicine (medicine that reduces suffering and/or improves
functionality AND understanding the biology of medicine.
What are the four main lobes and their respective functions?
Frontal Lobe: reasoning, decision making, problem solving, motor control,
executive functioning
Parietal Lobe: proprioception, pain, position, pressure
Occipital lobe: visual processing
Temporal Lobe: auditory, speech, emotions, and memory
What are the six parts of the limbic system and their respective functions?
Amygdala: fight or flight
Hippocampus: memory
Mammillary Body: recollective memory **
Cingulate cortex: sees errors and corrects **
, Basal Ganglia: coordinated movement
Nucleus Accubens: reward center
What are neurotransmitters?
Chemicals that transmit a signal from one neuron to another cell across a synapse
by activating a receptor
What is Glutamate?
Glutamate is an excitatory NT. Go!
Modified amino acid
Excess glutamate leads to cell death (think about the excess energy and how that
can lead to a cell become warn out, so it dies)
What is GABA?
GABA is an inhibitory NT. STOP!
Modified amino acid.
What is norepinephrine?
Monoamine
Key player in stress response
