Psychopharmacology; PSYC 223Q Prerequisite pretest Exam training Questions with Rated A + Marking Scheme Latest 2024/2025
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Psychopharmacology; PSYC 223Q Prerequisite pretest Exam training Questions with Rated A + Marking Scheme Latest 2024/2025
Enteral - correct answer Referring to a route of medication administration that uses the gastrointestinal tract, such as swallowing a pill or placing a suppository
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Psychopharmacology; PSYC 223Q
Prerequisite pretest Exam training
Questions with Rated A + Marking
Scheme Latest 2024/2025
Enteral - correct answer Referring to a route of medication administration that uses the
gastrointestinal tract, such as swallowing a pill or placing a suppository
Parenteral - correct answer Taken into the body or administered in a manner other
than through the digestive tract; transdermal, inhalation, general somatic injections,
insufflation, ICV and IN
Drug vehicle - correct answer Substance in which a drug is contained: it provides a
means for transporting the drug
Through the body
Saline - correct answer Most common drug vehicle, based on its 'salty water'
composition, sufficiently mimicking blood
Blood-brain barrier - correct answer Blood vessels (capillaries) that selectively let
certain substances enter the brain tissue and keep other substances out ; viruses are
stopped, but drugs are allowed through
Albumin - correct answer protein in blood; Drugs attach to this protein in order to move
throughout the body. This protein inhibits the drugs function while it's still attached, but it
can hitch a ride without fear of the body eliminating it. Also, binding to this protein
increases the drug duration
Pharmacokinetics - correct answer The study of how drugs move into, get around in,
and are eliminated from the body
, ADME - correct answer Acronym for "what the body does to a drug" - Absorption,
Distribution, Metabolism, and Excretion
Sublingual - correct answer Drug taken under the tongue
Liver - correct answer "First pass metabolism" takes place within the ____
BBB - correct answer The ___, or Blood Brain Barrier, is not very good at keeping out
molecules that are small, and also lipid-soluble (able to pass through fatty blood brain
barrier)
Metabolites - correct answer The metabolic breakdown products of drugs
Glial cells - correct answer cells in the nervous system that support, nourish, and
protect neurons; (the ones we concern ourselves most with are Schwann cells)
White, grey - correct answer Brain matter covered in myelin is referred to as _____
matter, while brain matter not covered in myelin is referred to as ____ matter
Presynaptic - correct answer ___________ membrane refers to the component of a
synapse specialized for transmitter RELEASE; upstream at a synapse.
Postsynaptic - correct answer ____________ membrane refers to the region of a
synapse that receives and responds to neurotransmitter
Synaptic cleft - correct answer The narrow gap that separates the presynaptic neuron
from the postsynaptic cell
Myelin - correct answer The ______ sheath is the fatty lipid cells that cover the axon,
responsible for both protecting the axon and speeding up neural processes by retaining
the voltage within the axon
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