Name the time of day that is best to give Tricyclic Antidepressants TCA
What is Bedtime? (Tricyclic Antidepressants are sedatives)
100
The most commonly prescribed type of anti-depressant.
What is SSRI’s?
100
Depression is a major risk factor for this serious action.
What is suicide?
100
Name the class we are currently in.
What is Mental Health?
200
Name 3 types of abuse that can cause depression?
What is physical, sexual, emotional?
200
Name foods that a patient should avoid while taking an MAOI, to prevent HTN crisis.
What is foods with tyramine; aged cheese, blue cheese, sauerkraut, chocolate, raisins?
200
Often referred to as talk therapy, this is a key part of treatment where the pt meets with a trained mental health professional.
What is psychotherapy?
200
This is the most common symptom of depression found in teens.
What is irritability?
200
Name the 3 neurotransmitters believed to be involved with depression.
What is serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine?
300
Name a type of "good" event can possibly lead to depression.
What is getting married, starting a new job or graduating?
300
Name the condition that is associated with long-term use of lithium in mood disorders.
What is Hypothyroidism?
300
A procedure that is used when other treatment hasn’t worked when the provider sends a brief and painless electric current through your scalp into your brain.
What is ECT?
300
A symptom of a bleak outlook, nothing will ever get better & there’s nothing you can do to improve your situation.
What is helplessness/hopelessness?
300
Name the first line and safest treatment for pregnant or breast feeding mothers.
What is talk therapy?
400
Name two types of problems related to mental illness that can lead to depression?
What is social isolation or being cast out by family?
400
How long after initially taking an antidepressant does it produce effects for the PT?
What is 2-4 weeks later?
400
This type of medicine lifts mood and eases sadness.
What are anti-depressants
400
This specific group of patients are less likely to acknowledge feelings of self-loathing and hopelessness.
Who are men?
400
Decreases with age in women and increased with age in men?
What is Depression
500
What percentage of people with substance abuse problems also have major or clinical depression?
What is 30%?
500
All of the following are associated with use of Tricyclic Antidepressants (TCA) except one, which one?
A. Dry mouth
B. Constipation
C. Blurred vision
D. Urinary Incontinance
What is Urinary Incontinence?
500
Medications like Cymbalta and Effexor are SNRI’s which affects brain circuits that use these two chemicals.
What are serotonin and norepinephrine?
500
The rates of depression are this much higher in women than in men.
What is 2 times?
500
Overdosage of tricyclic antidepressants occurs over several days and results in what symptoms?
What is confusion, agitation, hallucinations, hyperpyrexia, and increased reflexes.