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What rx can be lethal combined with a MAOI?
Venlafaxine (drugs involving NE ... amphetamines)
What is a parasomnia
physiologic/arousal disorders occuring during slow wave sleep
e.g. restlesslegs, sleep walking, periodic leg movements
What is one of the least nauseating antidepressants?
Mirtazapine . Remeron
Which ds has the highest relative risk in first degree relatives?
Bipolar Disorder
What is the effect of the following on labs (i.e. lytes)?
Oxcarbazepine ?
Valproate?
Topiramate?
Lithium?
Gabapentin?
Oxcarb: significant hyponatremia

Valp: elevated liver enz, increased ammonia levels, rare hyponatremia

Topiramate: hyperchloremic, non-ion-gap metabolic acidosis (elevated chloride levels) (high Cl, reduced bicarb level)

Lithium: diabetes inspidus, hypernatremia

Gabapentin: no lyte abnormalities
What is rapid cylcing associated with often? more common in women or men?
Antidepressant use
much more common in women
Note: substance abuse excludes dx of rapid cycling
Stroke on left side is associated with ?
Mood, anxiety, or psychosis?
on Right side?
left side stroke assoc with depression
right sided assoc with mania
What is genetically linked to OCD?
depression, anxiety, and tourette's
What rx would give if:
depression, substance abuse (nicotine), and adhd sx
bupropion
Which dementia?
1. early changes in personality ... late decline in memory?
2. triad of dementia, involuntary mvment, and periodic EEG activity?
3. hallucinations and psychosis
4. Early age of onset?
1. Pick's Disease
2. Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease
3. Lewy body
4. HIV, Huntington's ds
what does normally tend to decline with age?
speed of learning, processing and performing ....
but not STM, Knowledge fun, Language
Which "club drugs" asssociated with:
1. altered mental state, convlusions, hypo/hyperthermia, CVS instability, hepatoxicity, and death
2. Euphoria, vomiting, muscle spasms, LOC (with EtOH, very slowed resp)
3. Perception and sensation seperated. Dreamy feeling/numbness, hallucinations
4. decreased memory, decreased bp, drowsiness, visual disturbances, dizziness, confusion, GI disturbance, urinary retention
1. MDMA
2. GHB
3. Phencyclidine/ketamine
4. Flunitrazepam (Rohypnol) "roofies"
Anatomy of emotional tone of speech or prosody = ?
Wernicke's does understanding of language in dominant hemisphere
corresponding area in other hemi detects tone/prosody = right parietotemporal cortex

Broca's area is repsonsible for motor output
Corresponding area, in R premotor cortex, is involved in expressive language production or the "music" for the content
Alcohol has ? order kinetics.
women have ? body water content compared to men
alcohol is distributed in the ?
women have a ? ratio of fat-to-water content as they age
women have ? quantities of alcohol dehydrogenase in the gut compared to men.
women's bodies absorb ?(more or less) of the alcohol they drink than men
blood alcohol concentration in women can vary according to ?
Alcohol has zero order kinetics.
women have more body water content compared to men
alcohol is distributed in the tbw
women have a higher ratio of fat-to-water content as they age
women have lower quantities of alcohol dehydrogenase in the gut compared to men.
women's bodies absorb more of the alcohol they drink than men
blood alcohol concentration in women can vary according to menstrual cycle
Relative risk of the following for 1st degree relatives:
1. Bipolar ds
2. Sz
3. Panic Ds
4. AN
5. Alcoholism
7. Somatization
1. Bipolar ds 25%
2. Sz 18&
3. Panic Ds 10%
4. Alcoholism 7%
5. AN 5%
6. Somatization 3%
What psych med is associated with hyponatremia?
oxcarbazepine (2.5%) develop
What Rx can cause elevated liver fxn tests and increase ammonia levels?
Valproate
What rx causes hyperchloremic, non-ion-gap metabolic acidosis (high Cl, low Bicarb)
Topiramate
What rx can cause diabetes insipudus ... which would then lead to hyponatremia?
Lithium
What electrolyte changes does gabapentin cause?
nil
Rapid cycling: associated with ?
number of episodes?
women make up ?% of rapid cyclers
antidepressant use
4 or more
70 to 90% are women
Desipramine is substrate for what P450?
2d6
fluoxetine inhibits what p450?
2d6
Which dementia has early personality changes and late memory changes?
pick's disease
pick's disease affects what lobes?
frontal and temporal
what dementia associated with this triad: dementia, involuntary movement, periodic eeg activity?
Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease
hallucinations and psychosis associated with what dementia?
lewy body dementia
echolalia and echopraxia may be seen in what disease?
depression with catatonic features
features of mood ds with catatonic features = ?
motoric immobility
extreme agitation
extreme negativism
pecularities of voluntary movement
echolalia or echopraxia
what substance associated with:
change in mse
convulsions
hypo-or hyperthermia
cv instability
hepatoxicity
death
MDMA
what sub associated with:
sleepyness, vomitting, muscle spasms, loss of consciousness, mixed with etoh get slowed breathing?
GHB
dreamy state, numbness in extremities, hallucinogenic effect = ?
ketamine
date rape drug, amnesia, lower blood pressure, drowsiness, visual disturbances, dizziness, confusion, gi disturbances, urinary retention
flunitrazepam
brain are associated with emotional tone of speech?
right parietotemporal cortex
what does the right parietotemporal cortex correspond to in the left?
wernicke's
what is analogous in right brain to broca's area? and what is the fxn of that?
right premotor cortex
expressive language production
music for the semantic content
Lithium + what rx can cause toxicity?
thiazide diuretic
how does the kidney process Lithium?
excretes it
reabsorbed it in the proximal tubules with sodium and water
can lithium cause a nepropathy associated with protein loss?
yes
can Li cause a Tublointerstitial nepropathy?
yes .... through cumulative exposure which results in gradually lower gfrs
What is genetic connection of borderline pd?
5X greater in first degree relatives
greater familial risk of substance related ds, aspd, and mood ds
OCD and relationship to:
1. attention
2. responsibility
3. memory
4. spatial recognition
1. attention - decreased capacity for selective attention
2. responsibility -- have negative beliefs
3. memory - biased for disturbing themes, decreased confidence in memory
4. spatial recognition - deficits
what is codein's relationship to p450?
p450 2d6 used to convert it to morphine, active ingredient, if blocked must increase dose
bereavement vs mdd?
worthlessness
generalized (vs specific to deceased) guilt
preoccupation with death (vs wish to join deceased ... seen in bereavement)
pm retardation
hallucinations other than of deceased
what does the reticular activating system regulate?
arousal,
sleep-wake cycles,
conscious activity
what does the hypothalamus do?
hormonal regulation
eating
drinking
what structure is associated with motivation?
ventral striatum
which dementia?
insidous onset
early onset (earlier than alz)
incontinence,
speech and language abnormalities
aptahy
socially inappropriate behaviour
localized deficits on imaging (frontotemporal regions)
Pick's disease
dementia associated with basal ganglia changes on mri?
CJD
Dementias associated with neurological findings
Huntington's
parkinson's
parathyroid effects of lithium?
hypercalcemia and hyper-parathyroidism
with hyperplasia and adenomas of parathyroid glands
what is metoclopramide
Metoclopramide (INN) (pronounced /ˌmɛtəˈklɒprəmaɪd/) is an antiemetic and gastroprokinetic agent. Thus it is primarily used to treat nausea and vomiting, and to facilitate gastric emptying in patients with gastroparesis. It is also a primary treatment for migraine headaches.

It appears to bind to dopamine D2 receptors where it is a receptor antagonist, and is also a mixed 5-HT3 receptor antagonist/5-HT4 receptor agonist
can you get eps from metoclopramide?
yes
relationship of carbamazepine and liver enzymes?
induces, so can oral contraceptive
which mood stabilizers processed by liver?
lamotrigine,
valproate
brain structures associated with ocd?
cortex
striatum
thalamus
tx reduces orbitofrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex activity
AN comorbid disorders in order of frequency?
MDD 65%
Social phobia 34%
OCD 26%
which brain areas associated with alcohol dependence
ventral tegmentum
nucleus accumbens
prefrontal cortex
which brain regions associated with sz
anterior cingulate gyrus
thalumus
cerebellum
temporal lobe regions
AN brain region?
thalamus
substance associated with: ataxia, dysarthria, nystagmus, miosis
PCP or phencyclidine
do you get hypertension and agitation with heroin intoxication
not reallly
what rx associated with hyponatremia?
carbamazepine
which sleep ds more common in males?
sleep terror disorder
features associated with late onset depression (elderly) versus young
elderly more likely to have dementia on imaging,
poorer response to tx
chronic medical illness
what can lower lamotrigine levels?
what can raise?
enzyme inducers: carb, phenytoin, OCP's

valproate inhibits metabolism and doubles blood levels
Degenerative dementias such as ??
are distinguished from non-generative dementias by intrinsic genetic processes that lead to neuron destruction rather than complications from systemic medical conditions?
huntington's
and parkinson's disease
? reduces the clearance of lamotrigine by 50%
What rx increase lamotrigine clearance?
Divalproex

... Carb, Pheny, Phenobarbital reduce levels
amygdala plays key role in ?
emotional coding of sensory cues
? is involved in recalling previously learned material?
hippocampus
social behaviour structure?
frontal cortex
structures involved in normal sleep patterns?
thalamus
structures involvedin signaling reward by exogenous substances?
nucleus accumbens
ventral tegmentum
which rx's associated with tx alcohol dependence?
naltrexone
ondonsetron (off-label)
acamprosate
disulfiram
? Disorders are more common in fragile X syndrome than any other form of mental retardation?
anxiety disorders
what predicts good lithium response?
euphoric mania
nonrapid cycling
full interepisode remission
no comorbidity
lack of psychotic features
few lifetime episodes
mania-depression-euthymia course
children have less or more efficient renal function than adults?
more efficient
first line treatment for mild severity ptsd? mroe severe?
psychotx only
then psychotx +rx
process of gene mapping, performted to see if a particular allele occurs more frequently than by chance in affected individuals = what type of study?
association study
a type of gene-mapping study, examines whether two or more genetic loci are co-inherted more often than expected by chance?
linkage studies
type of study done to determine mode of inheritance .. dominant or recessive
segregation analysis
clonazepam has fda approval for what?
panic disorder (and seizure disorders)
most effective rx for rapid cycling bipolar ds?
divalproex
which rx's associated with tx alcohol dependence?
naltrexone
ondonsetron (off-label)
acamprosate
disulfiram
? Disorders are more common in fragile X syndrome than any other form of mental retardation?
anxiety disorders
what predicts good lithium response?
euphoric mania
nonrapid cycling
full interepisode remission
no comorbidity
lack of psychotic features
few lifetime episodes
mania-depression-euthymia course
children have less or more efficient renal function than adults?
more efficient
first line treatment for mild severity ptsd? mroe severe?
psychotx only
then psychotx +rx
process of gene mapping, performted to see if a particular allele occurs more frequently than by chance in affected individuals = what type of study?
association study
a type of gene-mapping study, examines whether two or more genetic loci are co-inherted more often than expected by chance?
linkage studies
type of study done to determine mode of inheritance .. dominant or recessive
segregation analysis
clonazepam has fda approval for what?
panic disorder (and seizure disorders)
most effective rx for rapid cycling bipolar ds?
divalproex
grapefruit juice is potent inhibitor of?
3A4
benzo's
calcium channel blockers
statis
cyclosporines
buspirone levels increase
a test to determine the chromosomal region where a disorder resides by search for co-segration of a genetic marker with the disorder locus
linkage analysis
which is longer lasting in tx of enuresis: bell and pad or rx?
bell and pad
tricyclics and desmopressin fade
chronic alcoholism associated with several neurologic findings ...
cerebellar anterior lobe degeneration
retrobulbar optic neuorpathy
wernicke's encephalopathy
amnestic disorder (korsakoff's)
in order to determine the genomic location of a susceptiblity gene for panic disorder, which test is most appropriate?
gene finding
describe molecular genetics
uses critical dna variants to trace biological pathways from dna to disorders
what studies are done to quanitify the degree of familial aggregation and or heritability
basic genetic epidemiology
Heretibality or proportion of phenotypic difference among individuals that can be attributed to genetic factors for
sz
ocd
alcohol depedence
mdd
panic ds
sz: 70 to 89%
60% for OCD
40 to 60% for alcohol dependence
40 to 45% for MDD and panic Ds
pancreatitis associated with what rx?
valproate
dementia, ataxia, and macrocytic anemia?
b12 def
dementia, diarrhea, dermatitis?
b3 defiency or pellagra
relation of the following drugs in terms of lithium levels
1. Theophylline
2. ziprasidone
3. hctz
4. celecoxib
1. Theophylline :lowers (diuretic)
2. ziprasidone: no change
3. hctz: raises
4. celecoxib: raises slightly
in the primary care setting, mdd most commonly presents with?
multiple somatic sx, with back pain among most frequent
lamotrigine and weight effect?
little weight change, slight gain
brain change most associated with MDD?
decreased size of the caudate
ocd and increased blood flow in what region?
basal ganglia, especially caudate
structural findings in ocd with caudate
bilateral shrinkage
side fx of dopa in patients with parks?
vivid dreams
night terrors
delirium
delusions
... especially after 2 or more years
which dementia most associated with myoclonus?
CJD
dysarthria associated with?
head injury
choreoathetosis sign of ?
huntington's disease
frontal release signs seen in?
pick's disease
for successful processing of traumatic events, three process must be accomplished?
engage emotionally with memory of trauma
trauma story must be organized and articulated in a sequenced and coherent fashion
dysfunctional thoughts that commonly occur after trauma must be addressed and corrected
ptsd considered chronic after?
3months
kidney stones side fx of which rx?
topiramate