Deck 3 - Central Nervous System drugs Flashcards
By interfering with the transmission of nerve impulses at the motor end plate, skeletal muscles can be relaxed.
Neuromuscular blocking drug
Used to treat malignant hyperthermia, which includes anesthetic complications that result in muscle rigidity and high fever.
Dantrolene sodium
characterized as the unintentional contraction of a muscle or set of muscles.
Muscle spasm
Effective against partial seizures and generalized tonic-clonicseizures but not absence seizures.
Phenobarbital
Most often given anticonvulsant medication.
Phenytoin
Both brain hemispheres experience intense levels of excitation.
Generalized Seizures
Excitation only little spreads from the focal to other cortical regions.
Partial Seizures
A class of diseases marked by increased CNS neuronal excitability.
Epilepsy
Drugs that block receptors for ACh.
Anticholinergic agents
Study of drugs that alter processes controlled by the nervous system.
Neuropharmacology
action potential transmission through the neuron’s axon.
Axonal conduction
method used to transfer information between postsynaptic cells and neurons.
Synaptic transmission
Passage is only permitted through particular transport systems or for lipid-soluble substances.
Blood brain barrier
Given to improve the child’s cognitive performance and attention span.
Methylprenidate
Treatment of narcolepsy.
Modafinil
