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NSG 552 PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY EXAM LATEST ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES The study of the use of psychotropic medications in the treatment of psychiatric disorders: - Answer️️ -Psychopharmacology The study of what the body does to drugs: - Answer️️ -Pha...

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NSG 552 PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY EXAM LATEST 2024-2025 ACTUAL EXAM
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The study of the use of psychotropic medications in the treatment of psychiatric

disorders: - Answer✔️✔️-Psychopharmacology


The study of what the body does to drugs: - Answer✔️✔️-Pharmacokinetics

The study of what the drugs does to the body: - Answer✔️✔️-Pharmacodynamics

Involves the absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of meds: - Answer✔️✔️-

First Pass Metabolism (C.Y.P. 450)

Increase serum levels of other drugs that are substrates of that enzyme: - Answer✔️✔️-

Enzyme inhibitors will slow down metabolism causing toxic levels

Decreases serum levels of other drugs that are substrates of that enzyme: - Answer✔️✔️-

Enzyme inducers cause fast metabolism and create subtherapeutic drug levels

Part of the brain that regulates powerful emotions such as fear, rage, sexual desires: -

Answer✔️✔️-Amygdala

The relay station for sensory information: - Answer✔️✔️-Thalamus

Essential for maintaining homeostasis, controls basic needs such as sleep- wake

cycles: - Answer✔️✔️-Hypothalamus

This lobe is involved in executive functioning, high order planning, speech and

motivation: - Answer✔️✔️-Frontal Lobe/ Prefrontal cortex


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Derived from Tryptophan and made in the Ralphe Nuclei: - Answer✔️✔️-Serotonin

Made in the Locus Ceruleus and involved in the noradrenergic pathways: - Answer✔️✔️-

Norepinephrine

90% of serotonin receptors are found in the: - Answer✔️✔️-GI tract

Produced in the V.T.A. (Reward Pathway) and involved in the four major pathways: -

Answer✔️✔️-Dopamine

Dopamine inhibits prolactin in this pathway: - Answer✔️✔️-Tuberoinfundibular

Increase dopamine in this pathway is associated with positive symptoms: - Answer✔️✔️-

Mesolimbic Pathway

Decrease dopamine in this pathway is associated with negative symptoms: -

Answer✔️✔️-Mesocortical Pathway

Decrease dopamine in this pathway produces motor symptoms: - Answer✔️✔️-

Nigrostriatal Pathway

Main inhibitory neurotransmitter that induces calmness and relaxation: - Answer✔️✔️-

Gamma- aminobutyric acid (GABA), Off switch

Main excitatory neurotransmitter: - Answer✔️✔️-Glutamate, On Switch

Major organ that breaks down drugs in the body: - Answer✔️✔️-Liver

Electrolyte imbalance commonly associated with psychotropic medication use: -

Answer✔️✔️-Hyponatremia

The time needed to clear 50% if drugs from the plasma: - Answer✔️✔️-Half-life

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The process of becoming desensitized and less responsive to a particular medication

dose overtime necessitating an increase: - Answer✔️✔️-Tolerance

A ration describing toxic dose to effective dose: - Answer✔️✔️-Therapeutic Index

A chemical that binds to a receptor to produce a biologic response: - Answer✔️✔️-

Agonist

A chemical that binds to a receptor but does not fully activate the receptor: -

Answer✔️✔️-Partial Agonist

A chemical that binds to a receptor, blocking it to inhibit a biologic response: -

Answer✔️✔️-Antagonist

An agent that binds to the same receptor as an agonist but induces an opposite

biological response: - Answer✔️✔️-Inverse Agonist

A usually undesired but foreseeable effect that occurs regardless of dose and often

resolves after continued therapy: - Answer✔️✔️-Side Effects

S/S opposite of what it was meant to treat: - Answer✔️✔️-Paradoxical Reaction

The four main dopamine pathways: - Answer✔️✔️-Mesolimbic, mesocortical, nigrostriatal,

tuberoinfundibular

Symptoms of Schizophrenia are divided into BLANK and BLANK: - Answer✔️✔️-positive

and negative symptoms




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