Central Nervous System drugs Flashcards
Define nueropharmacology.
Study of drugs that after processes controlled by the nervous system
What is CNS drugs?
Used by psychiatric disorders, suspression of seizures, relief of pain, production of anesthesia
What does metabolosism mean?
Change medications into less active/ inactive form by the action of enzymes
What does axonal conductation do?
Conducting an action potential down the axon of the neuron
What does synaptic transmission do?
Process by which imformation is carried a cross the gap between nueron and postsynaptic cell
Bloodbrain barrier do?
Impedes the entry of drug into the body
What is parkinson’s disease?
Slowly progressive nuerodegenerative disorder characterized by tremor, rigidity, postural instability and slowed movement
What is assesment?
Assess motor symptoms and the extent which they interfere which acitivites of daily living
What is therapeutic goal?
Improve the patient’s ability to carry out activities of daily life
Dopaminergic drugs do?
Direclty/indirectly cause activation of dopamine receptors
Anticholinergic agents do?
Drugs that block receptors for ACh
What is epilepsy?
Group of disorders characterized by excessive exitablility of nuerons of the CNS
Seizure means?
General term that appllies to all of epileptic events
Convulsion means?
Abnormal motor phenomenon
What is partial seizures?
Excitation undergoes limited spread from the focus to adjacent cortical areas
