Exam Guru 5 Flashcards
Fn caudate nucleus
Voluntary motor - Huntington’s
Goal-directed actions - OCD
Hippocampus
Encode new memories - Alzheimer’s
- cognitive of Schizophrenia
Anorexia pt w/ amenorrhea, next step?
Involuntary hospitalization for nutritional replenishment
Treat acute mania in pregnancy?
Electroconvulsive therapy
What NT is involved in ADHD?
Norepinephrine - treat w/ stimulants (NE reuptake inhibitors)
What NT involved in depression?
Serotonin
NE
D
What NT involved in mania?
Dopamine
What NT involved in schizophrenia?
Dopamine
What NT involved in OCD?
Serotonin
What NT involved in Anxiety?
Serotonin
GABA - think BDZ
Cotard?
Fregoli?
Cotard - turd - body parts dying
(nihilism)
Fregoli - Fred is George - different people are one person
What drug improve nicotine cravings while suppressing withdrawal symptoms?
Varenicline
- partial agonist at nicotine receptors
What dopaminergic system stimulated during gambling?
Mesolimbic
1st line GAD?
SSRI
- escitalopram, fluvoxamine, sertraline…
What illicit drug case euphoria, friendliness and feelings of love? Also provoke?
Amphetamine
- mood disorder
How treat amphetamine toxicity?
BDZ - Lorazepam
Wet, wild + wacky?
Normal pressure hydrocephalus
- dementia, incontinence, walking trouble
How treat pseudo dementia?
- depression causing dementia
- can be acute onset
- I don’t know
Fluoxetine
How treat anxiety?
- considered sedative meds
BDZ
Buspirone
If you have:
- REM sleep disorders
- apraxia (drawing pentagons)
- visual hallucinations
- parkinsonian symptoms think?
Dementia w/ Lewy Bodies
Secondary or tertiary treatment for MDD?
Phenelzine - MAOI - last treatment due to toxicity - can mask parkinson symptoms
Metoprolol in elderly w/ dementia?
Can cause cognitive suppression
- sympatholytic activity
Drink a ton of water, euvolemic hyponatremia.
Could be psychogenic polydipsia or SIADH.
Difference?
SIADH - urine concentrated
PP - urine maximally dilute
dementia, mania, schizo
Drug to reduce alcohol cravings?
Acamprosate
- GABA agonist
- NMDA antagonist
Mydriasis, diarrhea, rhinorrhea
Opiate withdrawal
Develops slowly over months
Recurrent involuntary contraction of small muscle groups
While on antipsychotic
Tardive dyskinesia
- Grimacing
- Grunting
- Muscle movements