NR-546 Advanced Pharmacology Psychopharmacology for the Psychiatric- Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Midterm Exam (Latest Update)
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What diagnosis has a diagnosis of psychosis as a feature?
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mania depression cognitive disorders dementia
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What are some positive symptoms?
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Hallucinations Delusions Thought disorder Hostility 1 / 4
Excitability
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What are some Negative symptoms?
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Affective flattening Alogia Anhedonia Amotivation Asociality
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What area of the brain is associated with negative and affective symptoms?
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Mesocortical and ventromedial prefrontal cortex:
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What area of the brain is associated with cognitive symptoms?
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Dorsolateral
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What area of the brain is associated with aggressive, impulsive symptoms?
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Orbitofrontal and connections to the amygdala
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Non-selectively blocks dopamine D2 receptors, specifically in mesolimbic pathway. Improves Positive Symptoms
Use: Acute & Chronic Schizophrenia & Psychosis
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First generation antipsychotics
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are associated with movement, intelligence, abstract thinking, the ability to organize, personality, behavior, and emotional control. Traumatic brain injuries can result in personality changes, difficulty controlling emotions, and other cognitive functions
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Frontal Lobes
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responsible for proprioception, is the home of the somatic senses. This part of the brain helps a person to identify spatial relationships, interpret pain and touch in the body, and identify and give meaning to objects
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Parietal Lobe (Middle Brain)
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Damage to the anterior portion may cause asterogenesis, the loss of ability to recognize objects via the sense of touch. This may be experienced by patients with post cerebral vascular accidents
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parietal Lobe
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and involved in short-term memory, speech, auditory signals, and smell recognition. It identifies "what" things are - object identification. It contains the limbic system, amygdala, and hippocampus.
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Temporal Lobe
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