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List the three major psych disorders:
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Anxiety, Schizophrenia, and mood disorders
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Four major type of drugs?
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Sedatives, Mood Stabilizers, Neuroleptics, and Sedative-Hypnotic
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What is the difference between clinical and therapeutic effects of a drug?
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Clinical effects may take minutes, days or weeks. Therapeutic effects usually take about 3-6 wks to achieve. The exceptions are the benzodiapems
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True or False: Many drugs in one class will be used to treat a disorder in another class.
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True. That is because we treat symptoms.
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Positive Symptoms represent too ________ neural activity, whereas Negative symptoms represent too _____ neural activity.
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Much ; Little
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Most psychotropic drugs have various drug-drug interactions because of what type of interaction with P450 enzymes?
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Because most are 450 substrates, inducers, or inhibitors.
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SSRI are (especially Zoloft is highly protein bound, what could happen if it is given with another drug that is only slightly less protein bound, such as warafin?
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They will compete for the receptors and Zoloft will win, causing possible bleeding issues. Leaving high free levels of the drug.
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What effects might occur when a drug has a high first pass metabolism and the patient has hepatic problems?
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Drug will not be metabolized well and possible toxicity levels may occur.
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Renal disease or drugs that reduce renal clearance (e.g., NSAIDs) may increase serum concentration of drugs that are excreted by the kidneys. Give one example of drug that would be effected.
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Lithium, toxic if only slightly over the therapeutic range
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They elderly are more sensitive to drugs due to what biological factors:
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decreased intracellular water, protein binding, tissue mass, and increased body fat.
Start Low – go slow. |
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These drugs have a high potential for abuse, are strong CNS depressants and are good suicide drugs therefore they are rarely used, they are what?
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Barbiturates
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Drugs of choice for anxiety
Also used to treat insomnia, seizure disorders, muscle spasm, panic disorder, and alcohol withdrawal |
Benzodiazepines
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These drugs are used to treat insomnia, they are the preferred treatment.
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Benzodiazepine-like
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Anxiety symptoms should or should not be treated?
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If it is just a symptom try not to treat, if it is affecting the individuals function you must look for underlying causes, medical, or anxiety itself can become a disorder. Then you treat. medical or if it becomes a disorder.
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A pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease.
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This is a syndrome.
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List some anxiety disorders.
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Panic, Phobia, PTSD, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
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