NSG 552- psychopharmacology Study Guide Exam And Actual Answers.
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NSG 552
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NSG 552
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 absorpti...
NSG 552- psychopharmacology Study
Guide Exam And Actual Answers.
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
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
The time needed to clear 50% if drugs from the plasma: - Answer Half-life
The process of becoming desensitized and less responsive to a particular medication dose overtime
necessitating an increase: - Answer Tolerance
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