Deck 3- Central Nervous System Drugs Flashcards
It impedes the entry of drugs into the brain.
Blood brain barrier
Treatment for absence, a typical absence seizure.
Clonazepam
What are the most commonly prescribed anticonvulsant drug?
Phenytoin
Which disease or disorder results when the neurons in the brain that produce dopamine die?
Parkinson’s disease
What is the meaning of ADHD?
Attention deficit/ hyperactive disorder
Characterized by falling asleep during normal walking activities or unable to move.
Narcolepsy
It is treatment for narcolepsy.
Modafinil
A group of disorder characterized by excessive excitability of neurons in the CNS?
Epilepsy
This is a treatment for respiratory depression caused by drug overdose and COPD.
Doxapram
A drug that can block for ACh.
Anticholinergic agents
What is the abnormal phenomenon?
Convulsion
It is general term that applies to all types of epileptics event.
Seizure
What type of seizure that excitation undergoes limited spread from the focus to adjacent cortical areas.
Partial seizure
What type of seizure that excitation spread widely throughout both hemispheres of the brain.
Generalized seizure
Defined as involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscle group.
Muscle spasm
Relax skeletal muscles by disrupting the transmission of nerve impulses at the motor end plate.
Neuromuscular blocking drugs
It is used to prevent muscle injury during ECT.
Non depolarizing agent
Process by which information is carried across the gap between neuron and postsynaptic cell.
Synaptic transmission
Conducting an action potential down the axon of the neuron.
Axonal conduction
Characteristic withdrawal syndrome occurs within 1 hr to several days after cessation of substances use.
Opioid addiction
