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NUR 162 Test 11. 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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