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Psychiatry & Insomnia Flashcards

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What is Psychiatry?

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The study and treatment of metal illness, emotional disturbances and abnormal behaviour

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What can effect your mental health?

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  • Family
  • Finance
  • Personal care/ physical well being
  • Accomidation
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What is mental health symptoms?

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  • Inner battle with self
  • confusion
  • disorded thinking
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How is mental health diagnosed?

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Specialist mental health professional will take a family history and talk about it. Will talk about things such as suicide

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What is isomnia?

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  • A sleep disorder
  • Inability to fall asleep, stay asleep, poor quailty of sleep, early morning waking (3/4am)
  • Can come with depression

Disturbance of arousal/ sleep system

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What do the following terms mean:

  1. Diurnal
  2. Nocturnal
  3. Circadian
  4. Cathemeral
  5. Crepuscular
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Diurnal: active during the day

Nocturnal: active during the night

Circadian: biological process recurring naturally on a twenty-four-hour cycle, even in the absence of light fluctuations.

Cathemeral: irregularly active at any time of night or day, according normal pattern.

Crepuscular: active primarily during twilight

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What are differnet sleeping patterns driven by?

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Changes in signalling of brain markersbody temperature

  • hypothalamic serotonin levels
  • melatonin levels
  • Changes in signalling of brain markers
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When is melatonin and orexin secreted?

Describe how circadian rhythms are produced

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Melatonin - secreted in dark phases

orexin: secreted during active walking (light phases)

Circadian rhythms produced by a centeral biological clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) according to light/ dark cycles. Circadian signals sned to pineal gland (PG) through paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus (PVN), the inner mediolateral nucleus (IML) in the spnial cord and superior cervical ganglia

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What are effects of sleep deprivation and increased risks?

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  • Mental ability e.g. concentration effected
  • Effects coordination

increased risk of:

  • breast cancer
  • diabetes
  • MI
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What causes insomnia?

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  • Self limiting: travel, jet lag, stress, shift work, hospitlisation (new enviroment/ people)
  • Pyschological: drepression, anxiety, Obsessive CD, grief
  • physical/ organic: Drugs, alchohol, pain, ashtma
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What is the arousal and sleep systems responsible for?

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Arousal: determines degree and type of alertness

Sleep: determines depth and quality of sleep

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What are the main goals of therpy for insomnia?

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  • Avoid chronic drug use
  • Identify cause
  • eliminate agents contributing to the problem
  • Ensure appropriate course of therpy
  • Place emphasis on views of pateints
  • course of managment to achieve goals
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What therapies are available for people with insomnia?

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  • Cognitive behaviour therpy (CBT)
  • Sleep hygiene
  • Hypnotics
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What does sleep hygiene involve?

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  • Don’t go to bed if not sleepy
  • Avoid day time naps
  • Establish a routine
  • Reserve a room for sleep - no eating/ watching TV
  • avoid caffeine, nicotine, alcohol
  • Avoid late evening hard exercise
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Desribe the stages involved in determing treatment for insomnia

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What is CBT and what does it involve?

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Challenging behaviour and/ or thoughts

  • Challenge assumption/ thoughts - how many hours of sleep do you need. Sleep diary
  • Challenge behaviour - if can’t sleep go do something
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Considerations before using hypnotics

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  • Cause must first be identified
  • Short term use of hypnotics in acute distress
  • In chronic insomnia CBT is preferref. Although can use antidepresdants, hypnotics, melatonin and sedating
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What class of drugs can be used for the treatment of insomnia?

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  • Benzodiazepines
  • Z-drugs
  • Antidepressants
  • melatonin
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How do benzodiazepines effect patients with insomnia?

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  • Sedative and induction of sleep
  • Help reduce time to sleep and increase total sleeping duration
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Apart from effects on sleeping, what other effects do benzodiazepines have?

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  • Reduce Anxiety
  • Reduce muscle tone (diazepam)
  • Anticoagulant activity
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What are side effects of benzodiazepines?

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  • Drowsiness, confusion, impaired- coordination
  • Hangover effect
  • Effects of alchohol and othe CNS depressants : respiratory depression
  • Elderly: problems of ataxia and confusion leading to falls
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What are the pharmacokinetics associated with benzodiazepines?

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Absorbed well from GI tract, metabolised by liver (several active metabolites), high lipid solubility, range in duration of action

23
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Give examples of drugs which are benzodiazepines

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  • Diazepam
  • Clonazepam
  • Lorazepam
  • Temazepam
  • Flurazepam
  • Nitrazepam
  • Lormetazepam
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What is the active metabolite of Temazepam?

What benzodiazepine has the longest 1/2 life?

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Oxazepam

Nitrazepam

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Disuss the use of benzodiazepines in terms of tolerance and dependance

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Tolerance: pharmacological effect reduces on repeated administration

Dependance: drug takig becomes complusive

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GIve examples of Z-drugs

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Zolpidem, Zopiclone, Zaleplon, Eszopiclone

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What is the mechanism of action for Z-drugs?

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Act at GABAA Receptor benzodiazepine site

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Discuss half life in terms of Z-drugs and BZs

What Z-drug is better for inducing sleep and which on better for maintaining?

Which drug has little motor impariment and which has little hang over effect?

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  • Z-drugs shorter half life
  • Zolpidem. Zopiclone
  • Zolpidem. Zaleplon
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How does melatonin treatment work?

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M1and M2 receptors in hypothalamus-feedback to increase melatonin release from pineal gland- effect on circadian signals.

Binds to M1/ M2 receptors - Gai and Gaq PCR. Leads to inhibition to AC and PLC therefore downregulation of PKA and PKC singalling. ALters ion channel function and circadain related transcription. Also binds to NQO2

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If CBT isn’t working for chronic insomnia what should be used?

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hypnotics

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