Indications
This class of drugs are primarily used to treat depression and anxiety.
What are antidepressants?
This type of crisis occurs when consuming tyramine with a monoamine oxidase inhibitor.
What is hypertensive?
This neurotransmitter is primarily involved in the fight-or-flight response.
What is epinephrine?
A pathway connecting the two brain hemispheres to coordinate their functions.
What is the corpus callosum?
A fixed false belief not based in reality.
What is a delusion?
This class of drugs is primarily used to treat those with bipolar disorder.
What are mood-stabilizers?
A syndrome defined by obesity, hypertension, hyperglycemia, and hyperlipidemia from taking antipsychotic medications.
What is metabolic syndrome?
What is dopamine?
Abnormalities in this brain area may result in schizophrenia, ADHD, and dementia.
What is the frontal lobe?
An outward expression of the client's emotional state.
What is affect?
This class of drugs treats alcohol withdrawal by acting on this neurotransmitter.
What is GABA?
A syndrome from taking antipsychotic medications resulting in muscle rigidity, a high fever, delirium, and unstable blood pressure.
What is neuroleptic malignant syndrome?
Derived from tryptophan and involved in the control of food intake, pain control, and sexual behaviors.
What is serotonin?
What is the medulla?
A deliberate shift from institutional care in state hospitals to community facilities.
What is deinstitutionalization?
This class of drugs treat severe and persistent mental health disorders, such as schizophrenia and mania by balancing dopamine.
What are antipsychotics?
Irreversible involuntary movements of the tongue, neck, and extremities that occur when taking this class of medications.
What are antipsychotics?
Too much of this neurotransmitter may result in a stroke and considered neurotoxic at high levels.
What is glutamate?
This brain area is responsible for movement coordination and postural adjustments.
What is the cerebellum?
This term describes inventing words that have meaning only for the client.
What is neologisms?
This medication produces specific desired reactions when consumed with alcohol.
What is Disulfiram (Antabuse)?
Dry mouth, constipation, blurred vision, and urinary retention occur when antagonizing this neurotransmitter.
What is acetylcholine?
Antagonizing this neurotransmitter results in weight gain, sedation, and hypotension.
What is histamine?
Area of the brain that includes the thalamus, hypothalamus, hippocampus, and amygdala.
What is the limbic system?
This nursing theorist developed the concept of the therapeutic nurse-patient relationship.
Who is Hildegard Peplau?