PsychQuestionsOutline Flashcards
Vortioxetine MOA
5HT1a affinity, less sexual dysfunction
Receptor Locus of Depression
5HT1a
SSRI with largest window for titration
Sertraline
Sexual Dysfunction locus
5HT2a
GI upset locus
5HT3
Venlafaxine effects with increasing doses
5HT to NE to DA
Duloxetine side effects
Idiopathic hypertension like venlafaxine
Duloxetine MOA
5HT and NE equally
Venlafaxine for neuropathic pain?
Sure!
Levomilnacipran (fetzima) MOA and use
SNRI and neuropathic pain syndromes/fibromyalgia
Moclobemide MOA and use
Reversibe MAOI
Depression and frontal lobes
Decreased Activity
How to treat PCP intoxication
Cogentin or propranolol
Thioridazine and AntiAch
Strong anticholinergic effects, bad for delirium
Abreaction
Releasing a repressed memory through reliving the event that caused it
Malpractice requires
- Negligence
- Duty
- Direct causation
- Damages.
Negligence is failing to meet the standard of care
When does Pick’s take place
Early on, family history will be positive for early onset dementia.
HIV related dementia
Global cognitive decline
Huntington’s dementia
Mid 30s with choreiform movements with prominent caudate atrophy
Some risk factors for suicide
Hopelessness is a very reliable indicator
Mood disorders and substance abuse
Carbamazepine cause of overdose
Macrolide antibiotics which inhibit p450
St. John’s wort and p450
Induces it, increases it so it speeds up metabolism of drugs
Alcohol damages what parts of brain
Hippocampus, fornix, and mamillary bodies
Difficulty swallowing/globus is a sign of
Conversion disorder. Once it starts to affect motor things it becomes conversion disorder
Kluver-Bucy Syndrome
docility, lack of fear response, anterograde amnesia, hyperphagia, and hypersexuality.