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Exam 3: NSG552 / NSG 552 (Latest 2024 / 2025) Psychopharmacology Exam Review | Complete Guide with Verified Answers | 100% Correct - Wilkes Q: Signs vary with blood levels, from decreased reaction time, muscle incoordination, ataxia, dysarthria, to respiratory failure and coma. Answer: alcohol intoxication Q: Levels of alcohol intoxication that require no formal treatment. Answer: mild to moderate Q: Treatment includes cardiopulmonary function maintenance, thiamine, and haloperidol PRN agitation...

Exam 2: NSG552 / NSG 552 (Latest 2024 / 2025 Update) Psychopharmacology Exam Review | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Wilkes Q: Which tricyclic antidepressant (TCA) is thought to be effective in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)? Answer: Clomipramine Q: What is the short-term treatment for acute panic attacks? Answer: Benzo Q: What is the long-term treatment for acute panic attacks? Answer: SSRI Q: What is the treatment option for performance anxiety?...

Exam 1: NSG552/ NSG 552 (Latest 2023/2024) Psychopharmacology Exam| Grade A Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct Q: Involuntary teeth grinding associated with antipsychotics: Answer: bruxism Q: Safest and best tolerated anticonvulsant for patients taking clozapine who experience dose related seizures: Answer: topiramate Q: Less incidence of antiadrenergic, anticholinergic and antihistaminic side effects but greater E.P.S.: Answer: high potency Q: G...

Exam 2: NSG552 / NSG 552 (Latest 2024 / 2025) Psychopharmacology Exam | Grade A Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct - Wilkes Q: What disorder presents as: not fixated on body shape/weight, recur- rent episodes of binge eating, no compensatory behaviors (vomiting/laxa- tives/etc), usually obese? Answer: Binge-eating disorder Q: What is the treatment for binge-eating disorder? Answer: First-line: SSRIs (escitalo- pram); Psychotherapy; Vyvanse= FDA approved/ topamx associated with weight ...

Exam 3: NSG552/ NSG 552 (Latest 2023/2024) Psychopharmacology Exam Review| Complete Guide with Verified Answers| 100% Correct Q: Signs vary with blood levels, from decreased reaction time, muscle incoordination, ataxia, dysarthria, to respiratory failure and coma. Answer: alcohol intoxication Q: Levels of alcohol intoxication that require no formal treatment. Answer: mild to moderate Q: Treatment includes cardiopulmonary function maintenance, thiamine, and haloperi...

Dissociation - defense mechanism that protects a person from overwhelming anxiety by emotionally separating Depersonalization - unreality or detachment from one's body, thoughts, feeling and actions Derealization: - unreality or detachment from one's surroundings Body dysmorphic disorder - Preoccupation with one or more perceived defects or flaws in physical appearance Spends significant time trying to correct perceived flaw with makeup, dermatological procedures or plastic surgery ...

naloxone - CORRECT ANSWER MOA: Pure opioid antagonist that competes and displaces opioids at opioid receptor sites. methadone, buprenorphine, buprenorphine+naloxone - CORRECT ANSWER Treatments for opioid use disorder. buprenorphine+naloxone - CORRECT ANSWER Treatment for opioid use disorder with comorbid pain. opioids - CORRECT ANSWER Inappropriate use of what substance may be due to uncontrolled pain? tablet, injectable, implant - CORRECT ANSWER Naltrexone...

1. What are the 6 general principles of psychopharmacological treatment?: - Safety Tolerability Efficacy Practicality Treatment accessibility Treatment compliance 2. Pharmacokinetics: How the drug moves in the body. (ex. Where is it absorbed? How and where is it metabolized? Where is it excreted?) 3. Pharmacodynamics: What the drug does to the body. (consider mechanism of action) 4. Define First-generation antipsychotics: Referred to as Typical Antipsychotics. Most have strong bond with D2...