Central Nervous System drugs

Question 1

It is the most commonly prescribed
anticonvulsant drug

Answer 1

Phenytoin

Question 2

It is defined as involuntary
contraction of a muscle or muscle
group

Answer 2

Muscle Spasms

Question 3

It is used for treatment of
malignant hyperthermia
[complication of anesthesia
causing muscle rigidity and
high fever]

Answer 3

Dantrolene Sodium

Question 4

It is used to decrease the amount of
anesthetic required during surgery

Answer 4

Non Depolarizing Agents

Question 5

It acts like
acetylcholine but not inactivated by ACHe

Answer 5

Succinylcholine

Question 6

What disease affects the extrapyramidal system
which influences movement

Answer 6

Parkinson’s Disease

Question 7

It is used to treat narcolepsy

Answer 7

Methylprenidate

Question 8

It is the treatment of narcolepsy

Answer 8

Modafinil

Question 9

It stimulates respiration

Answer 9

Analeptics: Xanthine

Question 10

It is the treatment of respiratory depression caused by drug overdose and COPD

Answer 10

Doxapram

Question 11

Drugs that block receptors
for ACh

Answer 11

Anticholinergic Agents

Question 12

What is the therapeutic role of the drug selegiline?

Answer 12

For newly diagnosed
patients

Question 13

What is the therapeutic role of the drug Levodopa?

Answer 13

First-line drug/ supplement
to dopamine agonist

Question 14

Group of disorders characterized
by excessive excitablility of
neurons in the CNS

Answer 14

Epilepsy

Question 15

It is the general term that apllies to
all types of epileptic events

Answer 15

Seizure

Question 16

It is the abnormal motor
phenomenon

Answer 16

Convulsion

Question 17

Excitation spreads widely throughout both hemispheres of the brain

Answer 17

Generalized seizures

Question 18

Excitation undergoes limited spread from the focus to adjacent cortical areas

Answer 18

Partial seizures

Question 19

True or False: Abstinence syndrome occurs when clients abruptly withdraw from a substance to which they are physically dependent.

Answer 19

True

Question 20

Bind to a carrier protein and act at a
receptor resulting in increased GABA in
the brain

Answer 20

Gabapentin