Neurotransmitters
Neuronal Development Stages
Development Misc
Neurochemistry Misc
Intro to Mental Health
100
These are the major excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters of the CNS
What is Glutamate and GABA
100
Hippocampal development proves that this process, previously thought to occur only during development, is possible in adults.
What is neurogenesis?
100
These two processes make up the most significant developments of the postnatal brain.
What are synaptogenesis and myelination?
100
Daily depression, diminished interest, significant weight gain, insomnia/hypersomnia, psychomotor agitation or retardation, fatigue, feelings of worthlessness, and other conditions represent a list of which this number must be in a patient in order to obtain a DSM-5 diagnosis of major depression
What is five?
200
These locations are respectively responsible for norepinephrine, acetylcholine, dopamine, and serotonin
What is locus ceruleus, nucleus basalis of mynert, substantia nigra, dorsal raphe nuclei
200
This term is one kind of environmental guidance of development in which behavior is altered as a result of learning from the environment, such as learning to ride a bike. Both arborization and synaptogenesis depict this property.
What is (experience) dependence?
200
Craniofacial abnormalities can often be linked to neural problems due to the simultaneous development of neural tissue and ectoderm. This disorder, seen in an infant who is jittery, does not feed well, and is often inconsolable, is a classic example of the above relationship.
What is FAS (Fetal alcohol syndrome?)
200
This type of doctor will be responsible for the prescription of most patients (51%) with depression.
What is a primary care physician?
300
These are metabolites of the following neurotransmitters, respectively: NE/E, Serotonin, Dopamine
What is vanillylmandelic acid (VMA), 5-HIAA, and homovanillic acid (HVA)
300
These two neuronal developmental processes are important during puberty.
What are Synaptic Sculpting and Myelination?
300
Of the immature function reflexes found in an infant at birth (startle reflex, palmar grasp reflex, Babinski reflex, and rooting reflex), one is commonly seen in elderly people with severe dementia.
What is the palmar grasp reflex?
300
Major depression showed a 15% prevalence in an American adult population of about 10000, or this fraction of total prevalence of anxiety disorders in the same population.
What is half?
400
These are the receptors and neurotransmitters which are the targets of the following drugs (respectively): benzodiazepenes, SSRI's
What is the GABA-a receptor, and 5-HT (serotonin) reuptake transporters
400
These two stages of neuronal development do not begin until birth.
What are Synaptic Sculpting and Myelination?
400
The instinct for feeding/suckling of an infant, which occurs beginning at one month of age, has the dual purpose of providing nutrition to the infant and also for strengthening muscles to later be used for this.
What is speech?
400
These are functions of the following pathways involving dopamine: Nigrostriatal, mesocortical, mesolimbic, tuberoinfundibular
What is motor (via basal ganglia), memory & attention, pleasure, and tonic inhibition of prolactin release from the anterior pituitary.
400
Though other concerns are also elevated quite a bit in psychiatric patients as compared to control populations, this medical concern in particular is vastly elevated in psychiatric patients as compared to control populations, at approximately a 4:1 ratio.
What is smoking?
500
These are the modalities (metabotropic or ionotropic) of the following receptors: AMPA, NMDA, GABA-a, GABA-b
What is ionotropic, ionotropic, ionotropic (Cl-), and metabotropic (via GPCR)
500
Migration, Differentiation, Synaptogenesis, Synaptic sculpting, and Myelination all share this characteristic of neurodevelopment.
What is regional specific age of equilibrium of development?
500
Structural damage to patients who have been victims of mental abuse can be attributed to the elevation of this chemical in the brain.
What is cortisol?
500
These are the rate limiting processes for the presence of the following compounds: serotonin, dopamine
What is the availability of tryptophan, and the activity of tyrosine hydroxylase.
500
This major characteristic of old antidepressants, such as MAOI's and tricyclics, lead to a steep decline in the prescription of these drugs as soon as the new drugs, like Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil, were discovered in the late 80's.
What is ability to overdose?
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