Vocabulary
A chemical produced by a nerve and released when the nerve is stimulated; reacts with a specific receptor site to cause a reaction
What is a neurotransmitter?
Barbiturates or Benzodiazepines are used as anxiolytics. Which medication class has more interactions with other medications making it less safe to use for patients with comorbidities?
What is Barbiturates?
Name the symptoms of depression.
What are: low energy/motivation, sleep disturbances, altered appetite, altered libido, overwhelming feelings of sadness, despair, hopelessness, and disorganization? Decreased desire/ability to perform ADLs.
Before prescribing anti-seizure medications, the provider must identify this.
What is the type of seizure?
Psychotherapeutic medications are used to control the symptoms of these conditions.
What are Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Narcolepsy, and ADHD?
A drug that depresses the CNS; produces a loss of awareness of and reaction to the environment
What is a sedative?
The class of drugs used for acute alcohol withdrawal.
What is benzodiazepines? Diazepam. Lorazepam.
The goal of antidepressant medications.
What is an increase the amount of neurotransmitters in the synaptic cleft?
Name the 3 types of seizures.
What are Focal, Generalized, Unknown?
The typical drug prescribed for Bipolar Disorder. Requires lab test monitoring.
What is Lithium?
The feeling that a person experiences when they respond emotionally to the environment
What is their affect?
An anxiolytic that does not cause CNS depression.
What is buspirone?
Name the 5 classifications of Anti-depressants.
What are TCAs, MAOIs, SSRIs, SNRIs, and others?
Anti-seizure medications target the CNS. This often causes what side effect?
What is sedation?
What should be done before prescribing CNS Stimulants?
What is the rule-out any underlying medical causes which may be causing the symptoms?
A drug used to treat disorders involving thought processes; dopamine receptor blocker that helps affected people to organize their thoughts and respond appropriately to stimuli
What is an antipsychotic?
The lab tests should be completed before starting a geriatric patient on anxiolytic. And why.
What are Liver and Renal function tests. If liver or renal functions are impaired, the efficacy of the medication will change.
The length of time before antidepressants have a therapeutic effect.
What is 4-8 weeks?
All anti-seizure drugs increase the risk of this side effect.
What is suicidal thoughts?
Schizophrenia presents with 2 different types of symptoms.
What is positive, (delusions and hallucinations), or negative, (apathy)?
A sudden abnormal discharge of excessive electrical energy from nerve cells in the brain that correspond to various associated signs and symptoms based on the area of the brain affected
What is a seizure?
The symptoms of alcohol withdrawal.
What are tremors, restlessness, irritability, nausea and vomiting.
The substance in aged and processed meats and cheeses which can cause hypertension in patients taking MAOIs.
What is tyramine?
You would monitor CBC for patient's taking anti-seizure medications to monitor for this side effect.
What is Bone Marrow Suppression?
CNS Stimulants increase the amount of these neurotransmitters in the CNS and periphery.
What are norepinephrine and dopamine?