Central Nervous System drugs Flashcards
It assess motor symptoms and the extent which is they interfere with activities of daily living.
Assessment
Process which information is carried across the gap between the neuron and postsynaptic cell.
Synaptic Transmission
It improves the patient ability to carry out the activities of daily life.
Therapeutic Goal
Drugs that block receptors for ACh.
Anticholinergic Agents
It’s abnormal motor phenomenon.
Convulsion
Most commonly prescribed anticonvulsant drug.
Phenytoin
Treatment for absence and atypical absence seizures.
Clonazepam
Can be use as daytime sedative “sleeping pills”
Phenobarbital
It decreases unpleasant effects resulting from abstinence (anxiety/ restlessness)
Acamprosate
It used for detoxification and maintenance, decreases craving, administered SL, IM and IV.
Buprenorphine (Subutex)
Effective for spasticity of cerebral origin.
Dantrolene Sodium
It inform patients that the benefits may be delayed for week to months.
Implementation
It affects the extrapyramidal system which it influences movements.
Parkinson’s Disease
Improves the bradykinesia, gait disturbance and postural instability.
Therapeutic Goal
An directly/indirectly cause activation of dopamine receptors.
Dopaminergic Drugs
