Disorders
After depression and alcohol use disorder, this type of disorder is the most common mental health issue found in both mental health and medical-surgical settings.
What are anxiety disorders?
Most prescriptions for anxiety medication is dispensed by doctor or prescriber in what setting?
What is primary care?
Known for producing a calming effect, this neurotransmitter is thought to play a major role in controlling nerve cell hyperactivity associated with anxiety, stress, and fear.
What is GABA?
The commonly prescribed drug, Ativan (lorazapam), is this type of drug.
What is a benzodiapime?
Withdrawal from antidepressants and anxiolytics can cause symptoms that mimic this disorder.
What is anxiety?
To diagnosis an anxiety disorder these etiologies (causes) must be ruled out.
What are medical or substance use etiologies?
This class of anxiolytics are preferred over barbituates because they have less lethal toxicity and have effects that are more easily reversed.
What are benzodiazapines?
NE is an abbreviation for this neurotransmitter.
What is norepinephrine?
This type of drug can cause or exacerbate anxiety.
What are amphetamines? (Or other stimulants, diet medications/appetite suppressants, certain asthma medications, decongestants, cocaine, caffeine, and steroids.)
Bipolar disorder can be mistaken for depression, except that it always has what one symptom?
What is mania (or hypomania)?
Lithium, anticonvulsants, and antipsychotics are drugs that all are used to treat this disorder.
What is bipolar disorder?
This risk makes clinicians hesitate to prescribe benzodiazepines to patients with mixed depression and anxiety.
What is risk of patients using the RX to overdose?
5-HT is an abbreviation for this neurotransmitter.
What is seretonin?
These types of anxiety medication have greater risks for dependence or overdose than anxiolytic drugs such as benzodiazepines.
What are barbituates or sedative hypnotics?
In higher doses, antipsychotics may be prescribed to treat bipolar disorder or psychosis, but in lower doses it is often prescribed for this.
What is sleep?
Anxiety disorders are treated by barbituates, benzodiapines, and this type of medication.
What are sedative-hypnotics?
Discontinuation of most anxiolytics should be done slowly over a period of weeks/months because of this risk.
What are withdrawal symptoms?
Symptoms may range from: epileptic seizures, myoclonic jerks, paranoid psychotic symptoms, delirium, visual/auditory hallucinations, depersonalization, nausea, anorexia, headaches, tremors, palpitations, sweating, influenza-like symptoms.
DA is an abbrevation for this neurotransmitter.
What is dopamine?
Ambien (zolpidem), which is frequently prescribed for sleep is in this class of medications.
What is a sedative-hypnotic?
Low doses act as a sedative, moderate doses are anxiolytic, and large doses produce hostility, irritability, or amnesia with this type of drug.
What are benzodiazipines?
Agoraphobia, often associated with panic disorder, is the fear of this.
What is the fear of being in a public or crowded place?
The term for when one episode of unstable mood paves the way for more frequent and severe episodes and future events may occur without warning or provocation.
What is the kindling effect or kindling theory?
This type of drug blocks stress-induced increases in NE, 5-HT, and DA and increases GABA.
What are benzodiapines?
Secobarbital, amobarbital, phenobarbital are this type of medications.
What are barbituates?
Procrastination, memory loss, neglect of family, low energy, increased appetite, financial difficulties, and decreased productivity are all problems associated with this that is used for anxiety.
What is marijuana?