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FITZGERALD PMHNP NURSE PRACTITIONER PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL
HEALTH EXAM LATEST UPDATE THIS YEAR ALL 380 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question: Veracity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The healthcare provider must be truthful and avoid
deception
Question: LACE Essentials - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Licensure
Accreditation
Certification
Education
Question: Licensure - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔granting of authority to practice
Question: Primary prevention - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-preventing the health problem
-most cost-effective form of healthcare
-immunizations
Question: Secondary prevention - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-detecting the disease
-screening
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Question: Tertiary prevention - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-minimizing negative disease induced
outcomes
-disease already present
-adjust therapy to avoid further damage
Question: Conditions that originate during brain development - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
schizophrenia, depression, autism, ADHD
Question: The Reptilian Brain - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Brainstem and Cerebellum
Question: Brainstem Structure - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Pons, medulla oblongata, midbrain
Question: Brainstem Function - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Regulates blood pressure, respiration,
level of arousal, and digestion
-Information relay to cerebellum
Question: Brainstem effects of damage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔impaired inhibition, anxiety,
depression, and personality changes
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Question: Brainstem specific psychiatric conditions - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔PTSD, paralysis,
psychosis, coma, and death
Question: Cerebellum function - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔coordinates balance, posture,
movement, memory, impulse control, cognition, language
Question: Cerebellum effects of damage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔damage can cause ataxia,
tremors, emotional blunting, and lack of inhibition
Question: cerebellum specific psychiatric conditions - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔autism and ADHD,
depression, bipolar do, schizophrenia
Question: The emotional brain - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The Limbic System
Question: The Limbic system major structures - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Amygdala, Hippocampus
Question: Amygdala key functions - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Regulates basic, powerful emotions:
fear, rage, sexual desire
Question: Amygdala effects of damage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Irritability, anger, aggression
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Question: Amygdala specific psychiatric conditions - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔PTSD, panic do,
depression, autism, and schizophrenia
Question: Hippocampus key functions - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Involved in memory and
converting short-term memory into long-term memory, learning
Question: Hippocampus effects of damage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Impaired memory and
attention
Question: Hippocampus specific psychiatric conditions - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔PTSD,
Alzheimer's, dementia, and major depression
Question: Thalamus key functions - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-relay station that connects the
cortex to the limbic system for sensory information
-Influences affect, mood, and body movements associated with strong emotion
Question: Thalamus effects of damage - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔impairment when people are
overwhelmed with information
