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Psychopharmacology Focused on Chapters 1,3,5 Drugs, Brain, & Behavior Problem set study Exam Questions and Correct answers Guaranteed Success 2024/2025
What term refer(s) to specific molecular changes that occur when a drug binds to a particular target site or receptor? - correct answer Drug Act...
Psychopharmacology Focused on
Chapters 1,3,5 Drugs, Brain, & Behavior
Problem set study Exam Questions and
Correct answers Guaranteed Success
2024/2025
What term refer(s) to specific molecular changes that occur when a drug binds to a
particular target site or receptor? - correct answer Drug Action
The resulting widespread alterations in function due to drugs is known as _____. -
correct answer Drug Effects
After a drug is administered the amount of drug in the blood that is free to bind at
specific target sites is referred to as _______ - correct answer Bioavailability
Specific molecular changes occurring when a drug binds to a particular target site or
receptor are known as _____? - correct answer Drug Action
How might oxytocin be administered as a possible treatment for autism? - correct
answer Intranasal because it allows for high brain concentrations
First-pass metabolism occurs when drugs are taken by what mode of administration? -
correct answer Oral
The area postrema is one area in the brain where the protective meachnism _______ is
not complete? - correct answer Blood-Brain barrier
First-pass metabolism occurs with orally administered drugs because - correct answer
Potentially harmful chemicals and toxins are passed via the portal vein to the liver
where they are chemically altered
, Toxic substances in the blood trigger a vomiting response by activating the - correct
answer Area postrema or CTZ (Chemical trigger zone)
Drugs administered _______ have the most rapid onset of action. - correct answer IV
(Intravenous)
Ionization of a drug depends on the _______ of the solution and the _______ of the
drug. - correct answer Relative Acidity; Intrinsic property of the molecule
Absorption of a drug depends on all of the following except - correct answer Body
Temp
Drugs that are _______ should be avoided by women of childbearing age. - correct
answer Teratogenic
Agents that induce developmental abnormalities in a fetus are known as - correct
answer Teratogens
Depot binding occurs when drugs - correct answer Bind to an Inactive sit
Drug metabolism mostly occurs in the _______? - correct answer Liver
Metabolized in the liver usually makes a drug more _______ soluble. - correct answer
Water
Which statement about drug clearance by first-order kinetics is false? - correct answer
Molecules of drug are cleared out an an exponential rate
Ethyl alcohol (ethanol) is an example of a drug that is eliminated - correct answer
According to zero-order kinetics
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