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Behavioral Neuroscience-
psychopharmacology Competency
study guide Exam test questions with
approved Answers 2024/2025

Factors determining drug effectiveness - correct answer lipid solubility
Depot binding
Enzymatic deactivation


Why placebos are effective in depression - correct answer depression comes in cycles
Helpless patient now taking action
Lonely patient has support
Depression difficult to quantify


Placebo mechanisms - correct answer activation of brain systems involved in
anticipating future


Criteria for neurotransmitter - correct answer synthesized in neuron
Present in presynaptic terminal and released so as to have
An effect in the postsynaptic neuron
When given in reasonable amounts mimics observed effect exactly eg opening ion
channels
Specific mechanism exists for removal


Neuromodulators - correct answer do not exert defined effect on postsynaptic
membrane alone but influences neurotransmitter
Are not just released at the synapse
Are often co-released from same terminals transmitter
May serve as neurotrasmitter in other part of the brain

, Many neurotransmitters modulate higher order brain activity or behavior
Less involved in transmitting message and more involved in adjusting or tempering
sensory input or motor output


Acetylcholine - correct answer excitatory neurotransmitter
Broken down by ache


Acetylcholine receptors - correct answer nicotinic (iontropic)
Muscarinic (metatropic)


Myasthenia Gravis - correct answer severe muscle weakening autoimmune disease of
neuromuscular junction
Most prevelent disorder of synapse


Change in endplate (myathenia gravis) - correct answer nicotinic receptors on motor
endplate attacked by antibodies
Number of receptors decrease (loss of receptors due to increase in degradation and
turnover)
Endplate changes shape


Monoamine - correct answer catechlomines(dopamine and norepinephrine)
Indilamine(serotonin)


Dopamine - correct answer excitatory effects on behavior


Nigrostraitial - correct answer substantia negra - neostritum (caudate nucleus and
putamen)


Mesolimbic - correct answer VTA - amygdal- hippocampus -nucleus accumbens
Reinforcement system (addiction)

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