Antidepressants
Name the neurotransmitter that is synthesized from the amino acid tryptophan, which comes from protein in our diet.
What is serotonin?
This diagnosis has a strong hereditary component.
What is bipolar disorder?
Name the chronic anxiety disorder that begins in youth or early adulthood.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
What is enhancing serotonin release (agonist)?
The process that removes the majority of excess catecholamines from the synaptic cleft is called
What is reuptake?
What are MAOIs?
Depression affects approximately this percentage range of the population.
What is 15 - 20 %
The name of the drug class that is classically used to treat symptoms of anxiety. Name the three subtypes.
What are anxiolytics? What are benzodiazepines, hypnotics, barbiturates?
Stimulant drugs used to treat ADHD work by blocking the reuptake of these neurotransmitters.
What are dopamine and norepinephrine?
What is choline acetyltransferase?
Name the subtype of antidepressants that are primarily used for treating major depression.
What are SSRIs?
A recently depressed person who suddenly is engaging in high risk behaviors and reduced need for sleep may be experiencing what episode of bipolar I disorder?
What is Manic?
Medication that is given as needed.
What is a PRN?
This alternative treatment is in the final stages of FDA approval and has been shown to improve the clinical response in patients undergoing treatment for PTSD.
What is MDMA?
This illicit drug exerts its pharmacological effects by blocking monoamine reuptake.
What is cocaine?
Serotonin release in the gut is stimulated by this process.
What is eating / entry of food into the gut?
This mood stabilizer causes the side effects of impaired concentration and memory, and is the only true mood stabilizer.
What is Lithium?
This brain structure plays a key role in the anxiety response.
What is the basolateral amygdala?
Name the drug that decreases the release of acetylcholine from the nerve terminal.
What is Vesamicol?
Name the stimulant drugs that can bypass the requirement for cellular excitation and cause a release of catecholamines independently of nerve cell firing?
What are amphetamine and methamphetamine?
The greatest danger of this antidepressant sub-class is cardiac arrest.
What is tricyclic antidepressant / TCA?
These medications are alternatives lithium as treatments for bipolar disorder.
What are tegretol and depakote (anticonvulsants)?
Also, what are Lamictal (anticonvulsant)?
Also, what are FDA antipsychotic medications for bipolar disorder?
The neurobiology of anxiety disorders show increased activity in these brain structures / areas.
What is the amygdala, hippocampus, and insula?
Most of the cell bodies that produce serotonin in the CNS are found in this area.
What is the raphe nuclei?
Acetylcholine is formed form these two precursors.
What are Choline and acetyl coenzyme A?