PMHNP Flashcards
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What disorders have ELEVATED rates of OCD?
BIPOLAR, eating disorders, and Tourette’s.
Location of 5-HT in brain
Raphe Nuclei (Brain Stem)
The most common type of delusions (i.e., belief that one is going to be harmed, harassed, and so forth by an individual, organization, or other group)
Persecutory
An over-importance of thoughts and need to control thoughts are characteristics of
OCD
OCD beliefs can include an inflated sense of responsibility an overestimate of
threat
OCD patients strive for perfection and are intolerant of
uncertainty
In individuals with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder, the prevalence of OCD is approximately
12%.
Name 5 body systems involved in panic disorder
ANS, Cognition (brain),
Cardiorespiratory (heart/lung),
GI (stomach), and Otoneurologic (ear)
True or False. Lipid solubility increase the absorption of drug into blood.
True
Ionization of a molecule determine its solubility. T/F
True
These bind to receptors with selectivity
Ligands
Large proteins on membrane or within cells that is the initial site of action
Receptors
Pavlov Classical Conditioning Experiment involved
Dog, bell, food
Type of learned behavior that reinforces/discourages acts
Operant Conditioning
Drugs are usually weak acid/bases and not readily
lipid soluable
Drugs can become ionized when dissolved in water depending on
The pH of solution and property of molecule.
The pKa is the solution a drug becomes
50/50 ionized/non-ionized in
acid need alkaline environments and vice versa
Grey Matter communicates _____ information
Sensorimotor
White Matter (Corpus Callosm)
Myelinated (Communicate between hemispheres)
Limbic System integrate emotions and regulate motivated
learning and behavior
Hippocampus is involved in these type of memories
New & long term
Nucleui Accumbens (Limibic System)
Reinforces Reward (VTA/Mesolimbic pathways)
Amygdala (Temporal Lobe)
Coordinate
Emotional Response and Memories
Dopamine is found in the
Substania Nigra and VTA
A decreased level of DA or cell death where it is stored leads to
Parkinson’s Disease
Glial (Glue) Cells provide _____ for neurons
metabolic support, protection, and insulation
Damage in the Wernicke’s Area (Left Hemisphere of Cortex T/P)
Impaired Language Comprehension and Confabulation
Broca’s Area (Left Frontal Lobe)
Impaired Reading/Writing/Speech (Aphasia),
But they CAN Comprehend
Cerebrum (Sensorimotor) FX
Balance and Position
Visual and Auditory
and Smooth Fine Motor
Lobe most responsible for rational thought, executive fx, movement
Frontal
Lobe most responsible for sensory, attention, space, touch, pain, and temperature
Parietal
Lobe responsible for hearing, speech related learning & memory
Temporal
Rapid Cycling occurs most often in BD I or II
II
Cranial Nerves the Pons Govern
Motor, eye, face, mouth
Which is safe to use in Bipolar patients TCAs or Wellbutrin
Wellbutrin
Sx in Mixed State Bipolar are
Apprear together but are less severe than full criteria
Failure of Trust vs Mistrust
Relationship and Suspicion
Failure of Autonomy vs Shame/Doubt
Self-Control and Dependency
Industry vs. Inferiority Failure
Difficulty learning and working
Initiative vs. Guilt Failure
Goal Orientation
Idenitity vs Role Confusion Failure
Poor self-identification in groups
Medications to tx Austism Aggression
Aripiprazole and Risperidone
SSRIs Approved for Children
Fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, sertraline
Name the 4 Piaget stages (end age 2711 15)
Sensorimotor
Preoperational (what you say it is)
Concrete (who’s who, and me?)
Formal (abstract)
Name Freud’s 5 Stages 136 twelve-eighteen
Oral (mouthy)
Anal (OCD)
Phallic (Oepidus)
Latency
Genital (SEX)
ASSO
Name Mahler Stages of Development
Autism 2
Symbiosis 3-5
Separation-Individuation 5-16
Object Constancy 25-36
Elevated BP Reading
120/80
Stage 1 HTN Reading
130/80
Most sensitive indicator of renal fx
Creatinine 0.5-1.5mg
Diabetes fasting reading of ??? on one or more occasions
126
A glucose reading of 200 with s/s of ??? is indicative of diabetes
Hyperglycemia
BUN to Creatinine Ratio is usually
10:1
Which is more sensitive to liver damage, AST or ALT?
ALT
Serotonin Syndrome Sx
Libby Zion
Schizoaffective Disorder
Characterized by periods in which Manic and/or Major Depressive Episodes are concurrent with the
active-phase symptoms of
Schizophrenia
In Schizoaffective Disorder positive schizophrenia sx are present at least 2 weeks in the absence of _____ symptoms are present _____ of the time.
Bipolar and Majority
In Schizoaffective Disorder positive schizophrenia sx are present at least _____ in the absence of bipolar symptoms are present majority of the time.
2 weeks
BD I with psychotic features if those symptoms have occurred exclusively during _____ episodes.
Manic and Major Depressive.