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NR 546 Advanced Pharmacology Psychopharmacology

for the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Midterm Exam Week 4




1. How does the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) affect the amygdala?: inhibits andactivates

the amygdala



2. Wernicke's area is associated with which of the following?: speech compre-hension




3. The limbic system is associated with which of the following: emotion andlearning



4. Which brain structure is most associated with long term memory?: hip-pocampus




5. When prescribing psychotropic medications, the PMHNP knows that these

medications work within which specific areas?: mood

,6. Which of the following are involved in regulating neurotransmission via ex- citation-

secretion coupling?: voltage-sensitive sodium channels and voltage-sen- sitive calcium

channels




7. What system influences the length of time for a drug to achieve efficacy?: -

signal transduction cascades




8. One of the signal transduction cascades, pass the message from a firstreceptor to

a second messenger.: G protein linked systems



9. Human central nervous system communication at synapses is which of thefollowing?:

chemical




10. Which of the following is an excitatory neurotransmitter?: glutamate

11. Which statement correctly pairs the pharmacodynamic effect with its defi-nition?:

,antagonist effect - drug binds to receptor, but does not activate a response



12. A major current hypothesis for the cause of schizophrenia proposes thatN-methyl-

d-aspartate (NMDA) receptors may be which of the following? Correct!: hypofunctional




13. Which medication is least associated with weight gain?: aripiprazole

14. Which dopamine pathway is associated with positive symptoms of schiz-ophrenia?:

mesolimbic pathway



15. Which pathway is associated with negative symptoms?: The mesocorticalpathway




16. Is part of the extrapyramidal nervous system and associated with ex-

trapyramidal symptoms (EPS): nigrostriatal pathway



17. This pathway is associated with hyperprolactinemia.: The tuberoinfundibu-lar

pathway

18. A 34-year old male recently began experiencing breast secretions while receiving

,risperidone . Which dopamine pathway is associated with this sideeffect?:

tuberoinfundibular pathway



19. A 44-year-old woman is initiated on an atypical antipsychotic for the treatment of

schizophrenia. Regarding affinity, atypical antipsychotics demon-

,strate which of the following most often?: Atypical antipsychotics have equalpositive

symptom antipsychotic actions and low extrapyramidal symptoms.

20. is a syndrome that can be associated with several different psychiatric disorders.

Symptoms include hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech,disorganized behavior,

and distortions of reality. This syndrome can affect a person's cognition, affective

response, communication, capacity to recognizereality, and ability to relate to others.:

psychosis

21. What Diagnosis require the presence of psychosis?: schizophrenia

substance-induced psychotic disorders

schizophreniform disorder

schizoaffecive disorder

delusional disorder

brief psychotic disorder

psychotic disorder due to a medical condition

22. What diagnosis has a diagnosis of psychosis as a feature?: maniadepression

cognitive disorders

dementia

23. What are some positive symptoms?: Hallucinations

, Delusions

Thought disorder

Hostility

Excitability

24. What are some Negative symptoms?: Affective flatteningAlogia

Anhedonia

Amotivation

Asociality

25. What area of the brain is associated with negative and affective symp-toms?:

Mesocortical and ventromedial prefrontal cortex:

26. What area of the brain is associated with cognitive symptoms?: Dorsolat-eral

27. What area of the brain is associated with aggressive, impulsive symp-toms?:

Orbitofrontal and connections to the amygdala

28. Non-selectively blocks dopamine D2 receptors, specifically in mesolimbicpathway.

Improves Positive Symptoms

Use: Acute & Chronic Schizophrenia & Psychosis: First generation antipsy-chotics

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