Deck 3- Central Nervous System Drugs

Question 1

It impedes the entry of drugs into the brain.

Answer 1

Blood brain barrier

Question 2

Treatment for absence, a typical absence seizure.

Answer 2

Clonazepam

Question 3

What are the most commonly prescribed anticonvulsant drug?

Answer 3

Phenytoin

Question 4

Which disease or disorder results when the neurons in the brain that produce dopamine die?

Answer 4

Parkinson’s disease

Question 5

What is the meaning of ADHD?

Answer 5

Attention deficit/ hyperactive disorder

Question 6

Characterized by falling asleep during normal walking activities or unable to move.

Answer 6

Narcolepsy

Question 7

It is treatment for narcolepsy.

Answer 7

Modafinil

Question 8

A group of disorder characterized by excessive excitability of neurons in the CNS?

Answer 8

Epilepsy

Question 9

This is a treatment for respiratory depression caused by drug overdose and COPD.

Answer 9

Doxapram

Question 10

A drug that can block for ACh.

Answer 10

Anticholinergic agents

Question 11

What is the abnormal phenomenon?

Answer 11

Convulsion

Question 12

It is general term that applies to all types of epileptics event.

Answer 12

Seizure

Question 13

What type of seizure that excitation undergoes limited spread from the focus to adjacent cortical areas.

Answer 13

Partial seizure

Question 14

What type of seizure that excitation spread widely throughout both hemispheres of the brain.

Answer 14

Generalized seizure

Question 15

Defined as involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscle group.

Answer 15

Muscle spasm

Question 16

Relax skeletal muscles by disrupting the transmission of nerve impulses at the motor end plate.

Answer 16

Neuromuscular blocking drugs

Question 17

It is used to prevent muscle injury during ECT.

Answer 17

Non depolarizing agent

Question 18

Process by which information is carried across the gap between neuron and postsynaptic cell.

Answer 18

Synaptic transmission

Question 19

Conducting an action potential down the axon of the neuron.

Answer 19

Axonal conduction

Question 20

Characteristic withdrawal syndrome occurs within 1 hr to several days after cessation of substances use.

Answer 20

Opioid addiction