7.7 psychotic drugs Flashcards
Psychoses (major and obvious)
are disorders in which pateints exhibits fals beliefs (delusions) and false perceptions (ahllucinations). There is detachment from reality
Affective disorders
emotional distrubances in which the mood is excessively low (depression) or high (mania), may be bipolar (manic depressive) with cyclically alternating manic depressive phases or unipolar (mania or depression) with waxing and waning course
Neuroses (not detached from reality)
less severe, unlike psychoses, ability to comprehend reality is not lost, though pt may undergo extreme suffereing, anxiety, phobic states (panic disorder), obsessive compulsive disorders, reactive depression, post raumatic stress disorder, hysterical conversion, personality disorders
psychotropic or psychoactive drugs
durgs which affect mental processes eg cognition or affect
classes of psychotropic drugs
antipsychotics, antianxiety, antidepressants, antimanic, psychotomimetic
antipsychotics
(neuroleptics or major tranquilizers) –useful in all types of psychoses, particulary schizophrenia
antianxiety
(anxiolytic-sedative, minor tranquilizer) used for anxiety and phobic states
antidepressants
used for minor as well as major depressive illness, phobic states, obsessive compulsive behavior and certain anxiety disorders
antimanic (mood stabilizers)
used to control mania and break into cyclic affective disorders
Drugs for affective disorders
antidepressants and antimaniac drugs are sometimes collectively referred as drugs for affective disorders
Psychotomimetic (psychedelic, hallucinogens)
seldom used in therapy, however produces psychosis ike states, majority are drugs of abuse
Schizophrenia
a debilitating psychosis characterized by delusion, hallucinations (often in the form of voices, auditory) and thinking or speech disturbances, affects 1% of the world population, heredofamilial, prenatal abnormal cerebrum (MRI) and neurotransmitters,
Schizophrenia biochemical nature
biochemical abnormality, possibly an overactivty of the mesolimbic, mesocortical dopaminergic neurons, inc in D2 receptors in Nucleus Accumbens - PET (Dopamine hypothesis) –> positive symptoms
dopamine hypothesis
functional excess of cerebral dopamine leads to schizophrneia
drugs that block dopamine receptors or deplete monoamines (reserpine)
ameliorate schizophrenic systems (+ve)
drugs that activate dopamine receptors or release amines (amphetamines)
exacerbate symptoms or cause psychoses
Antipsychotic effects is related to
antidopaminergic drug potency drug potency (IC50–dose required to block 50% of receptors)
Dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia
incomplete (explains positive symptoms, antipsychotic drugs are only partially effective for most and ineffective for some pts –indicates dopamine physicology not completely responsible for the pathogenesis of Schizophrenia, involvement of (glutamate) NMDA, cholinergic 5HT receptors likely
Positive symptoms of schizophrenia
disorer of Perception and inferences delusions, hallucinations, thought disorder
delusions
fixed false beliefs (invulnerable to logical contradictory evidcnes) “flat earth society”
Hallucinations
auditory “running commentary voices” and others
thought disorder
thougth insertion, thougth broadcast, illogicla decisions
Negative symptoms
abnormal relationships, expressions or speech –affective flattening, alogia, anhedonia, apathy
Affective flattening
lack of or inappropriate emotional expression
Alogia
absence of words
Anhedonia
inability to derive pleasure from any activity
Apathy
withdrawal from the social contact
Cognitive dysfucntions in schizophrenia
impaired attention, impaired working memory, impaired executive function
Dopamine agonists cause
psychosis ex. Amphetamines, levodopa, ampmorphine
Dopamine antagonists have
antipsychotic actions
Serotonin abnormality in schizophrenia
dec in 5H2/5H1A receptors in prefrontal cortex of pts
glutamatergic dysfunction in schizophrenia
a deficiency of glutamatergic activity – decrease hipocampal NMDA (glutamate) receptors
Dopamine paths
slide 20, 21–take pictures
Dopamine paths in the brain - mesolimbic
dopamine travels from the midbrain tegmental area to the nucleus acumbens. Increased activity in this pathway may cause delusions, ahllucinations, and other so-called positive symptoms and cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia
Dopamine paths in the brain - mesocortical
decreased activity in pathway that goes from the midbrain to the prefrontal lobe cortex may caue apathy, withdrawal, lack of motivation and pleasure, and other so-called negative symptoms of schizophrenia, mesocortical dysfunction also disinhibits mesolimbic pathway
slide 24
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what accounts for negative symptoms of schizophrenia
dec mesocortical dopaminergic account for the negative symptoms
what accounts for the positive symptoms of schizophrenia
increased meoslimbic dopamine neurotransmission results in positive and cognitive symptoms
Dopamine paths in the brain - nigrostriatal
the pathway from substantia nigra to striatum, involved in the coordination of the body movements, inhibition of this pathways (DA antagonsits) results in extra pyramidal side effects of anti-psychotics
DA agonists my cause
dyskinesias
Dopamine paths in the brain - tuberoinfundibular
it is from hypthalamus to pituitary and inhibits prolactin secretion – block of this pathways results in increase prolactin secretion
increased prolactin secretion form DA antagonists results in
gynecomastia, infertility, amenorrhea
Dopamine paths in the brain - medullary0periventricular
consists of neurons in the motor nucleus of the vagus, may be involved in eating behaviour
Dopamine paths in the brain - incertohypothalamic
forms connections from the medial zona incerta to the hypothalamus and amygdala, regulate sexual behaviour
nigrostriatal origin
substantia nigra
nigrostriatal innervation
caudate nuc, putamen
nigrostiratal fn
extra pyramidal motor control
mesolimbic origin
midbrain ventral tegmentum
mesolimbic innervation
limbic system
mesolimbic fn
arousal memory motivation
mesocortical origin
MVT
mesocortical innervation
frontal and prefrontal cortex
mesocortical fn
cognition communication
tuberoinfundibular origin
hypothalamus
tuberoinfundibular innervation
pituitary
tuberoinfundibular fn
regulates prolactin secretion
Dopamine receptors
5 types D1 to D5, Fall in 2 categories D1like, D2 like
D1 like receptors
Gs - inc cAMP
D2 like
Gi - dec cAMP —these ones are what we are worried about in schizophrenia