Psych-1 Flashcards
SSRI safe for pregnant women
Fluoxetine
SSRI with highest Nausea and Diarrhea
Sertraline
SSRI with fewest drug-drug interactions
Citalopram
SSRI you don’t have to taper
Fluoxetine
SSRI used for OCD
Fluvoxamine
Skinny old depressed lady who can’t sleep.
Mirtazapine A2 agonist will cause weight gain and drowsiness
Treats depression and neuropathic pain
Duloxetine
Norepi and Dopa uptake inhibitor that lowers the seizure threshold
Buproprion
Drug for depression that increases BP.
Venlafaxane (SNRI)
Side effect of mirtazapine
Agranulocytosis
TCA approved for OCD
Clomipramine
Atypical antipsychotic with highest EPS risk and Inc. Prolactin
Risperidone
Atypical Antipsychotic that increases the QTC,
Ziprasadone
Atypical anti-psychotic. weight neutral, Increases akathasia
Ariptrazole “Ants in the Pants”
Atypical Antipsychotic that causes orthostasis and cataracts
Quetiapine (Has Alpha Blocking properties)
What do you treat Benzo withdrawal with ?
Diazepam
What do you treat a specific phobia with ?
Flooding or Exposure/Extinction
What do you treat a social phobia with
Beta blocker / Benzo
Gold Standard to treat OCD ? What is 1st line?
Clomipramine is gold standard, SSRI are first line. + Exposure Response Prevention
What do you treat PTSD with ?
Sertraline or Paroxetine combined with CBT
Sleep Spindles and K Complexes
Stage 2
Sleep walking and night terrors
stage 3
What causes Fragile X
CGG Repetes w/ anticipation. X-Linked. Seizure, MVP, Dialation of the aorta, tremors, ataxia,
Cafe- au - Lait, Seizures, Large Head
Neurofibramatosis
Coarse facies, short stature, cloudy cornea. Autosomal Recessive
Hurlers Syndrome
Smith Magenis ?
Broad, square face, short stature, deletion of chrome 17, self injurious behavior.
Hypotonia, hypogonadism, hyperphagia, skin picking, agression, chrom 15 deletion.
Prader-Willi (Paternal deletion / Prader Willi
Seizures, Strabismus, Sociable Episodic Laughter, Deletion on maternal chrom 15
Angelman.
Chromosome 7 deletion. Elfin appearance, Increased empathy and verbal reasoning
Williams
Person on an antipsychotic developed a grey rash and jaundice.
Chlorpromazine
Person on antipsychotics developes inc.QTc retinopathy
Thioridazine
Resistant schiophrenia
Clozapine.
Bipolar and Pregnant
Clonazapam
Bipolar and developed hepatitis
Valproic Acid.
SSRI with MOST Drug - Drug Interactions
Paroxetine
5HT discontinuation syndrome is common with ?
Sertraline and Fluvoxamine
Depressed patient with hypertension, should not get ?
Venlafaxane
What do you give a patient who is in a hypertensive crisis
IV Phenatolamine.