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NUR 162 Test 1

1. Excitatory or inhibitory? Norepinephrine
Answer
Excitatory


2. Excitatory or inhibitory? Epinephrine
Answer
Excitatory

3. Excitatory or inhibitory? Dopamine
Answer
Excitatory

4. Excitatory or inhibitory? Acetylcholine
Answer
Excitatory or inhibitory

5. Excitatory or inhibitory? Serotonin
Answer
Inhibitory

6. Excitatory or inhibitory? Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)
Answer
Inhibitory

7. What type of neurotransmitter is histamine?
Answer
Neuromodulator


8. What does histamine control?

,Answer
Controls alertness, gastric secretions, cardiac stimulation, peripheral allergic response

9. What does GABA do?
Answer
Modulates other neurotransmitters

10. What does serotonin control?
Answer
Controls food intake, sleep and wakefulness, temperature regulation, pain control, sexual
behaviors, regulation of emotions

11. What does acetylcholine control?
Answer
Controls sleep and wakefulness cycle; signals muscles to become alert

12. What does dopamine control?
Answer
Controls complex movements, motivation, cognition; regulates emotional response

13. What does epinephrine control?
Answer
Controls "fight or flight" response

14. What does norepinephrine control?
Answer
Changes in attention, learning and mem- ory, sleep and wakefulness, mood

15. Excess norepinephrine can cause
Answer
Severe anxiety disorders

,16. A deficit in norepinephrine can cause
Answer
Memory loss, social withdrawal and depression

17. Excess dopamine can cause
Answer
Schizophrenia


18. A deficit in dopamine can cause
Answer
Parkinsons disease

19. Mechanism of action for ALL antipsychotic drugs
Answer
Block receptors for the neurotransmitter dopamine


20. Conventional (first generation) antipsychotics are potent antagonists (blockers) of D2, D3
and D4. Blocking D2 causes

Answer
Extrapyramidal side effects

21. Atypical (2nd generation) antipsychotics MOA
Answer
Inhibit the reuptake of sero- tonin (which increases their effect of treating the depressive aspects
of schizophre- nia)

22. Atypical (2nd generation) antipsychotics are weak blockers of D2 which means
Answer
A lower incidence of extrapyramidal side effects

23. Paliperidone is chemically similar to
Answer

, Risperidone (except Paliperidone is extended release)

24. Weight gain is more likely with what generation antipsychotics?
Answer
2nd gen- eration (atypical), except Ziprasidone

25. What two antipsychotics is weight gain most significant in?
Answer
Clozapine and Olanzapine




26. What is the warning that all atypical (2nd generation) antipsychotics must have on the box?
Answer
Increased risk for hyperglycemia and diabetes

27. What route is Asenapine given?

Answer
Sublingual

28. What is important patient teaching regarding the application of Asenap- ine?
Answer
Avoid food or drink for 10-15 minutes after the medication dissolves

29. MOA of dopamine system stabilizers (3rd generation) antipsychotics?
Answer
3rd generation antipsychotics preserve or enhance dopaminergic transmission when it is too
low and reduces it when it is too high

30. What is DSM-5-TR
Answer
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

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