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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
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
