Midterm Exam: NR546/ NR 546 Psychopharmacology for the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner | 2023/ 2024 Update| Questions and Verified Answers| New!! – Chamberlain
Midterm Exam: NR546/ NR 546
Psychopharmacology for the PsychiatricMental Health Nurse Practitioner | 2023/
2024 Update| Questions and Verified
Answers| New!! – Chamberlain
Q: What diagnosis has a diagnosis of psychosis as a feature?
Answer:
mania
depression
cognitive disorders
dementia
Q: What are some positive symptoms?
Answer:
Hallucinations
Delusions
Thought disorder
Hostility
Excitability
Q: What are some Negative symptoms?
Answer:
Affective flattening
Alogia
Anhedonia
Amotivation
Asociality
Q: What area of the brain is associated with negative and affective symptoms?
Answer:
Mesocortical and ventromedial prefrontal cortex:
Q: What area of the brain is associated with cognitive symptoms?
Answer:
Dorsolateral
Q: What area of the brain is associated with aggressive, impulsive symptoms?
Answer:
Orbitofrontal and connections to the amygdala
Q: Non-selectively blocks dopamine D2 receptors, specifically in mesolimbic pathway.
Improves Positive Symptoms
Use: Acute & Chronic Schizophrenia & Psychosis
Answer:
First generation antipsychotics
Q: are associated with movement, intelligence, abstract thinking, the ability to organize,
personality, behavior, and emotional control. Traumatic brain injuries can result in personality
changes, difficulty controlling emotions, and other cognitive functions
Answer:
Frontal Lobes
Q: responsible for proprioception, is the home of the somatic senses. This part of the brain helps
a person to identify spatial relationships, interpret pain and touch in the body, and identify and
give meaning to objects
Answer:
Parietal Lobe (Middle Brain)
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