Chapter 8

Question 1

Give 2 examples of anxiety disorder

Answer 1

generalized anxiety, social anxiety

Question 2

Is schizophrenia a functional or an organic psychosis?

Answer 2

functional psychosis

Question 3

Besides sadness, what are some other indicators of a major depressive episode?

Answer 3

fatigue or loss of energy, significant weight loss or appitite, insomnia

Question 4

What type of drug is chlorpromazine, and where was it first tested on patients?

Answer 4

a phenothiazine, 1955 in Delaware State Hospital

Question 5

What is tardive dyskinesia, and how does it respond to a reduction in the dose of an antipsychotic drug?

Answer 5

a serious drug complication of antipsychotics, it involves repetitive sucking and smacking movement of the lips and thrusting of the tongue in and out “fly-catching” and movements of the arms, toes, or fingers.
a person needs to be weaned off the antipsychotic and have a replacement of another drug in its absence. Without doing this they will go through withdrawal

Question 6

Which type of drug was discovered while testing an antituberculosis agent?

Answer 6

MAO

Question 7

How do the selective reuptake inhibitors differ from the older tricyclics in terms of their actions in the brain?

Answer 7

they have fewer other actions than the tricyclics (SSNRI)

Question 8

What were two of the three reasons it took so long for lithium to be available for use in the United States?

Answer 8

salt-substitute poisoning, mania was not seen as a major problem in the US

Question 9

If clozapine is so dangerous, why is it prescribed at all?

Answer 9

it has proven to help those who did not respond to other antipsychotics, with routinely blood work to monitor white blood cell count its safe

Question 10

Why was Prozac the most widely prescribed antidepressant drug ever marketed?

Answer 10

it was the lest likely to lead to overdose death