pg. 1 NR546 Psycho pharm Midterm Newest 2025 Complete Exam/ Actual Exam Questions with 100% Correct Verified Answers/ Graded A+
What diagnosis has a diagnosis of psychosis as a feature? - Correct Answer - mania depression cognitive disorders dementia
What are some positive symptoms? - Correct Answer - Hallucinations Delusions Thought disorder Hostility Excitability
What are some Negative symptoms? - Correct Answer - Affective flattening Alogia Anhedonia Amotivation Asociality
What area of the brain is associated with negative and affective symptoms?
- Correct Answer - Mesocortical and ventromedial prefrontal cortex: 1 / 3
pg. 2 What area of the brain is associated with cognitive symptoms? - Correct Answer - Dorsolateral
What area of the brain is associated with aggressive, impulsive symptoms?
- Correct Answer - Orbitofrontal and connections to the amygdala
Non-selectively blocks dopamine D2 receptors, specifically in mesolimbic pathway. Improves Positive Symptoms
Use: Acute & Chronic Schizophrenia & Psychosis - Correct Answer - First
generation antipsychotics
Which medication classes increases serotonin? - Correct Answer - SSRIs, Tricyclic, SNRIs
bind more potently to the 5HT 2A receptor than the D2. Sedation is common and relates to a high affinity for histamine. These medications have the least risk of EPS but a high risk for weight gain and metabolic abnormalities. - Correct Answer - The "Pines"
more potently to the 5HT 2A receptor than to D2 or bine equally between the 2 receptors. These medications are less sedating and cause less weight gain, but have a higher risk for hyperprolactinemia and EPS. - Correct Answer - Two dones and a rone
bind more potently to D2 receptors than to 5HT-2A. They have low risk of metabolic side effects and weight gain, but they have a potential for EPS.The rip binds equally to both D2 and 5HT-2A receptors. The medications has low risk for metabolic disorders. - Correct Answer - 2 Pips and a Rip
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pg. 3 What medication has the highest risk for galactorrhea, due to hyperprolactinemia. - Correct Answer - risperidone
Include other symptoms such as disorganized speech, disorganized behavior, gross distortions of reality testing, and as diminished emotional expression and decreased motivation. - Correct Answer - Negative symptoms
If the functioning of this pathway is disrupted by lesions or drugs, prolactin levels can also rise. Elevated prolactin levels are associated with galactorrhea (breast secretions), gynecomastia (enlarged breasts especially in men), amenorrhea (loss of ovulation and menstrual periods), and possibly other problems such as sexual dysfunction. - Correct Answer - tuberoinfundibular DA neurons
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 - Correct Answer - Frontal Lobes
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 - Correct Answer - Parietal Lobe (Middle Brain)
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 - Correct Answer - parietal Lobe
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