Psychotropic Drugs and Mental Illness Treatment

Question 1

Give examples of some common psychiatric illnesses.

Answer 1

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Question 2

Give examples of some medicines for psychiatric illnesses.

Answer 2

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Question 3

What are psychotropic drugs?

Answer 3

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Question 4

What are the properties of psychotropic drugs?

Answer 4

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Question 5

Give examples of some psychotropic drugs and their medical use. Give drug examples.

Answer 5

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Question 6

What are some common symptoms of anxiety?

Answer 6

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Question 7

Give examples of drugs used to treat anxiety

Answer 7

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Question 8

What are the properties of benzodiazepines?

Answer 8

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Question 9

Give an overview of a GABA synapse

Answer 9

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Question 10

What are the different sites for therapeutic drugs on GABA-A receptors?

Answer 10

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Question 11

What is the structure of a GABA-A receptor? Where is the GABA binding site? Where is the benzodiazepine binding site? Discuss the subunit specific behaviour of this receptor.

Answer 11

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Question 12

Give examples of anxiolytic drugs that target 5-HT neurons. How does buspirone work? What is the paradox of anxiolytic effects of SSRIs?

Answer 12

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Question 13

What drugs are used to treat depression?

Answer 13

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Question 14

Give examples of TCAs, their adverse effects and other therapeutic uses. How do TCAs work?

Answer 14

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Question 15

Give examples of MAOIs and their adverse effects. How doe MAOIs work?

Answer 15

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Question 16

Give examples of SSRIs, their adverse effects and other therapeutic uses. How do SSRIs work?

Answer 16

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Question 17

Give examples mood stablisers. What are the general features of lithium and its adverse effects. How does lithium work? How do other mood stabilisers work?

Answer 17

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Question 18

Give an example of a potential alternative to lithium. How was this molecule found?

Answer 18

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Question 19

What is the monoamine hypothesis of depression? Give some evidence for and against it.

Answer 19

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Question 20

Suggest a way in which antidepressants work.

Answer 20

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Question 21

Give examples of new antidepressant therapy strategeries

Answer 21

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Question 22

What are the symptoms of schizophrenia?

Answer 22

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Question 23

Give examples of the different drugs used to treat schizophrenia. How do these drugs work?

Answer 23

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Question 24

Are 2nd generation antipsychotics better than 1st generation?

Answer 24

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Question 25

What are some of the pharmacological profiles of individual antipsychotics?

Answer 25

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Question 26

What is the dopamine theory of schizophrenia? Give some evidence for and against it.

Answer 26

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Question 27

Give examples of new targets for schizophrenia treatment

Answer 27

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