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NUR 234 EXAM 1 - MENTAL HEALTH -
EDWARDS - ECPI
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
ANSWERS
Mood, Behavior, Thinking - Answer-Mental Health includes disorders that affect what?

Dorothea Dix - Answer-Mental Health pioneer, created nurse-asylums to
deinstitutionalize and prevent abuse.

1950's - Answer-In what year was Psychopharmacology invented? (Development of
psychotropic drugs)

Reduce suicide rate
Increase proportion of children/adolescent treatment
Reduce proportion of persons with major depressive episodes
Increase the proportion of adults who receive treatment
Increase treatment of homeless adults with mental health problems - Answer-5 Goals of
Healthy People 2030

Hildegard Peplau - Answer-Pioneer of the therapeutic nurse-client relationship;
interpersonal dimension. (foundation of current practice)

Frontal Lobe - Answer-Responsible for thought, body movement, memories, emotions,
moral behavior.

Parietal Lobe - Answer-Responsible for taste, touch, spatial orientation.

Temporal Lobe - Answer-Responsible for smell, hearing, memory, emotional
expression.

Occipital Lobe - Answer-Responsible for language, visual interpretation.

Cerebellum - Answer-What controls coordination of movements and postural
adjustments? (Balance/Equilibrium)

Hypothalamus - Answer-What part of the brain is responsible for temperature
regulation, appetite control, endocrine function, sexual drive, and impulsive behavior?

Dopamine
Norepinephrine
Epinephrine

, Glutamate - Answer-Excitatory Neurotransmitters

Serotonin
GABA (Gamma-aminobutyric acid) - Answer-Inhibitory Neurotransmitters

Dopamine - Answer-Neurotransmitter: complex movements, motivation, cognition,
regulation of emotional response

Norepinephrine - Answer-Neurotransmitter: attention, learning, memory, sleep,
wakefulness, mood regulation

Epinephrine - Answer-Neurotransmitter: fight-or-flight response

Glutamate - Answer-Neurotransmitter: neurotoxic effects at high levels

Serotonin - Answer-Neurotransmitter: ‒food intake, sleep, wakefulness, temperature
regulation, pain control, sexual behaviors, regulation of emotions

GABA (Gamma-aminobutyric acid) - Answer-Neurotransmitter: major inhibitory
neurotransmitter; modulation of other neurotransmitters

Acetylcholine - Answer-Neurotransmitter that can be excitatory or inhibitory. Sleep-and-
wakefulness cycle; signals muscles to become alert

Histamine, Neuropeptides - Answer-Neuromodulators

Block dopamine receptors to treat symptoms of psychosis - Answer-What is the
mechanism of action for antipsychotic drugs?

Chlorpromazine
Fluphenazine
Thioridazine
Haloperidol
Loxapine - Answer-First generation antipsychotic drugs.

Clozapine
Risperidone
Olanzapine - Answer-Atypical or Second generation antipsychotic drugs.

Aripiprazole (Dopamine system stabilizers) - Answer-Third generation antipsychotic
drug.

Acute Dystonia
Pseudoparkinsonism
Akathisia
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome (Hallmark is Fever)

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