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Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology Questions and Correct Answers
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Stahl's Essential PsychopharmacologyQuestions and Correct Answers
Net agonist
✓ ~~~ When full agonist is absent, partial agonist acts as a...
Neurons
✓ ~~~ Specialized nerve cells in the CNS
Dendrites
✓ ~~~ Tree-like branching that extends from the cell body that forms chemical
communication with axons, soma, and other dendrites; also contain dendritic spines
Soma
✓ ~~~ Cell body; contains cell organelles (mitochondria, ER, synaptic vesicles, mRNA
Axon
✓ ~~~ Tail-like structure that extends from the cell body that is responsible for
electrical and chemical neurotransmission
Synapse
✓ ~~~ Chemical transmission between neurons
Presynaptic
✓ ~~~ Anterograde chemical transmission
, Postsynaptic
✓ ~~~ Retrograde chemical transmission
Synaptic cleft
✓ ~~~ The point of chemical transmission between neurons
Axodendritic
✓ ~~~ Chemical communication between the axon and dendrites
Axosomatic
✓ ~~~ Chemical communication between the axon and cell body
Axoaxonic
✓ ~~~ Chemical communication between the axons of two neurons
Net antagonist
✓ ~~~ In the presence of a full antagonist, a partial agonist acts as a...
Electrical communication
✓ ~~~ Can be communication within a neuron
Chemical communication
✓ ~~~ Communication between neurons
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