Psych

Question 1

Fluphenazine

Answer 1

antipsychotic medication used to treat schizophrenia and psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, and hostility

Side effects- tremor and uncoordinated movements of extremities

Avoid ☀️

Question 2

Haloperidol causes

Answer 2

Akathisia -muscle quivering, restlessness, and inability to sit still,

Question 3

Side effect of antipsychotic meds that may be irreversible

Answer 3

Tardive dyskinesia

Question 4

Mirtazapine

Answer 4

is an antidepressant medicine. It’s used to treat depression and sometimes obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and anxiety

Side effects- asthenia, drowsiness, abnormal dreams

Question 5

Lithium

Answer 5

Lithium is a type of medicine known as a mood stabiliser. It’s used to treat mood disorders such as: mania or hypomania

Can cause low thyroxine levels

therapeutic -0.5 to 1.5

lithium toxicity- exceeds 2.0

Question 6

Selegiline

Answer 6

Treats depression

Oxcarbazepine significantly raises the level of selegiline.

Oral forms of selegiline are approved for bipolar disease.

Transdermal selegiline is the only transdermal treatment for major depression.

Question 7

Chlorpromazine

Answer 7

antipsychotic medication that can be used to treat anxiety, mania, psychosis and schizophrenia

Can cause shuffling gait, tremor and rigidity

Question 8

Imipramine

Answer 8

to treat depression

also used for the treatment of nighttime bed-wetting (enuresis) in children.