"Happy Pills"
This medication is the drug of choice for the treatment of mania in bipolar disorder.
What is Lithium?
These medications reduce positive symptoms but may not reduce negative or cognitive symptoms.
What are Typical Antipsychotics/1st Generation?
This drug class is considered first line of treatment in anxiety disorders.
What are SSRIs?
Agranulocytosis refers to having severely reduced levels of this blood component.
What are neutrophils?
These 3 neurotransmitters are often targeted when taking antidepressant medications.
What are norepinephrine, serotonin, and dopamine?
In addition to treating bipolar disorder, Valproic Acid, Lamotrigine, and Gabapentin are also in this drug class.
What are anticonvulsants?
Often forgotten about, antipsychotic medications are useful in treating this lesser known psychiatric illness.
What is psychotic depression?
This class of anxiety medications are best suited as "rescue drugs" or for other acute interventions.
What are benzodiazepines?
Severe muscle rigidity, diaphoresis, labile pulse and blood pressure, stupor, coma, and death are the symptoms of this severe adverse reaction seen in antipsychotics.
What is neuroleptic malignant syndrome or NMS?
As antidepressants start to take effect and a patient has more energy the nurse should be concerned about this.
What is suicidality?
This medication requires patient teaching that involves discussion of steps to take should they develop a red/purple rash
What is Lamotrigine? (Lamictal)
Antipsychotic medications help manage delusions, hallucinations, thought disorders, and bizarre behavior, which are classified as these kind of target symptoms.
What are positive symptoms?
This drug has an off label application for use in anxiety-based disorders.
What is Propranolol?
There is an increase risk of seizures with this commonly used antidepressant.
What is Bupropion? (Wellbutrin)
This medication is most commonly used as an adjunct to either increase efficacy, for smoking cessation or to treat sexual side effects relating to antidepressant use.
What is Buproprion? (Wellbutrin)
This medication can be dispensed as either a tablet or as a red liquid which is very sticky in nature
What is Valproic Acid?
Medication non-adherence in individuals with serious and persistant mental health concerns may be mitigated by switching to this option.
What are Long Acting Injectables?
Benzodiazepines are often used to manage withdrawal symptoms from this substance.
What is alcohol?
This term is used to identify a series of symptoms that are part of drug-induced movement disorders.
What is Extra Pyramidal Symptoms? (EPS)
In the context of improving mood and other symptoms of depression, a medication trial should be at least this long in length?
What is 12 weeks.
Mood stabilizers are most commonly used to treat this psychiatric disorder
What is bipolar type 1 disorder?
Once stabilized on Clozapine, Gen-Can requires ongoing blood work and monitoring every ______ weeks.
What is four?
Unlike many other anxiolytics, this medication does not exhibit anticonvulsant, sedative, hypnotic or muscle relaxant features?
What is Buspirone? (Buspar)
Tongue protrusion, lip smacking, choreiform movements and chewing are symptoms of this serious and often permanent side effect, seen at times in patients taking conventional antipsychotics.
What is Tardive Dyskinesia?