NUR 162 Test 1 Ch.3
- What are the three purposes of the DSM-5?
Answer provide a standardize nomenclature, present defining characteristics, and to assist in identifying underlying causes of disorders
- When was the period of enlightenment for mental illness?
Answer 1790
- What were Dorothea Dix's major contributions to mental health in the U.S.?-
Answer she advocated for the fair treatment of mental illness and she created asylums
- What was Sigmund Freud's contribution to mental health?
Answer he studied the mental disorders and how to treat them
- Excitatory neurotransmitters
Answer dopamine, norepinephrine, epinephrine, gluta- mate
- Inhibitory neurotransmitters
Answer serotonin, GABA
- excitatory/inhibitory neurotransmitters 1 / 2
Answer acetylcholine
- What neurotransmitter controls movements, motivation, cognition, and emotion?
Answer Dopamine
- What neurotransmitter has an impact on attention, learning, sleep, and mood?
Answer Norepinephrine
- What neurotransmitter controls the fight or flight response?
Answer epinephrine
- What neurotransmitter is neurotoxic and found with stroke and hypo- glycemia?
Answer Glutamate
- What neurotransmitter controls food intake, sleep, temperature, pain, sex, and emotions?
Answer serotonin
- What neurotransmitter modulates other neurotransmitters?
Answer GABA
- What neurotransmitters controls sleep and signals muscles?
Answer acetylo- choline
- What disorders are involved with dopamine?
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