NURS 256 MENTAL HEALTH EXAM 2
LATEST 2024 -2025 COMPLETE EXAM
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What illnesses are associated with the decrease/increase of Dopamine - correct answer ✔✔decrease:
Parkinson's disease, depression
increase: Schizophrenia, mania
What illnesses are associated with the decrease/increase of Norepinephrine - correct answer
✔✔decrease: depression
increase: mania, anxiety states, schizophrenia
What illnesses are associated with the decrease/increase of serotonin - correct answer ✔✔decrease:
depression
No increases
What illnesses are associated with the decrease/increase of GABA - correct answer ✔✔decrease: anxiety
disorders, schizophrenia, mania, and Huntington's disease
Increase: reduction of anxiety
What illnesses are associated with the decrease/increase of Glucamate - correct answer ✔✔decrease:
psychosis
increase: neurotoxic (if prolonged) neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease
What illnesses are associated with the decrease/increase of acetylcholine - correct answer ✔✔decrease:
Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Parkinson's
increase: depression
, _____________ plays a role in learning, and memory. Stimulates ANS for "resting and digesting" - correct
answer ✔✔Acetylcholine
_________ excitatory, AMPA plats a role in learning and memory - correct answer ✔✔Glucamate
________ plays a role in inhibition, reduces aggression, excitation, and anxiety. may play a role in pain
perception, has anticonvulsant and muscle relaxing properties. may impair cognition and psychomotor
functioning - correct answer ✔✔GABA
______ Plays a role in sleep regulation, hunger, mood states, pain perception, and hormonal activity.
Also plays a role in aggression, and sexual behavior - correct answer ✔✔Serotonin
_______ level in brain affects mood attention, and arousal. Stimulates "fight or flight" - correct answer
✔✔Norepinephrine
Agonist - correct answer ✔✔Mimics the effects of neurotransmitters naturally found in the brain by
binding to and stimulating the receptor site
Antagonist - correct answer ✔✔Blocks the action of the neurotransmitters, thereby obstructing the
neurotransmitter's action
_______ promotes the activity of GABA, possess antianxiety, hypnotic, anti-convulsant, amnestic (loss of
memory), and muscle relaxant properties - correct answer ✔✔Benzodiazepines
______ Reduces anxiety without having strong hypnotic sedative effects, unlike benzos. Therefore,
patients tolerate this medication better. - correct answer ✔✔Buspirone (BuSpar)
________ are first line treatment options for anxiety, and anxiety related disorders. - correct answer
✔✔Anti-depressants
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