Drugs & Diseases
What drug is first line of defense when the primary symptoms are mania and depression?
Bipolar
What drug is implicated in overdose when the symptoms are: fever, confusion, tachycardia, twitching and agitation?
What is Serotonin Syndrome?
When hopelessness, sadness, feelings of worthlessness, unable to experience joy, can’t concentrate.
What is depression?
An excitory brain neurochemical.
What is Glutamate?
What drug is first offered to those with exposure to trauma, recurrent flashbacks, and panic attacks.
Sertraline (Zoloft)
What can result when Ambien and alcohol are combined?
What are central nervous system depressants?
When a client has a less severe, less intrusive form of mania of at least 4 days duration.
What is a hypomanic episode?
An inhibitory brain neurochemical
What is Gaba?
Valproic Acid, Carbamazepine, Lamotrigine.
What are anticonvulsants?
What drug class is most often prescribed for those with symptoms of hopelessness, unworthiness, poor concentration, unable to experience pleasure of joy.
What are antidepressants, SSRI's
When a client has a flight of ideas, racing thoughts, distractibility, impulsivity, grandiosity, increased energy, hyper verbal, and diminished need for sleep.
What is mania?
It controls emotional responses, the brain’s reward and pleasure center, the heart, increases blood flow to vital organs.
What is Dopamine?
Made with a salt, client must watch salt regulation.
What is Lithium?
What can happen when too much tyramine and MAOI’s are combined
What is a hypertensive crisis?
When at least one period of hypomania, alternating with one or more periods of depression, never having a full manic episode.
What is bipolar II?
It regulates mood and sleep
What is Serotonin?
Fluoxetine, Sertraline, Paroxetine, Citalopram, Escitalopram.
What are antidepressants, SSRI's?
What drug class is used when there is an emergent need if client has severe panic attacks.
What are benzodiazepams?
Where there is a suppression of the bone marrow, causing a decrease in the White Blood Cells, WBC’s.
What is agranulocytosis?
When a client experiences voices, hallucinations.
What is schizophrenia?
It is referred to as the emotional brain: hippocampus, amygdala, and basil ganglion.
What is the Limbic System?
Fluoxetine, Sertraline, Paroxetine, Citalopram, Escitalopram.
Lithium