NSG 522 Psychopharmacology Exam 1 | Newest Complete Questions & Correct Answers

NSG 522 PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY EXAM 1
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What is reserpine? - CORRECT ✔✔- Causes extreme
ANSWER sedation
than can be reversed by DOPA

- Blocks VMAT



Catecholamine release and locomotor activityCORRECT ✔✔-
- ANSWER
Released by exocytosis

- Increase in locomotor activity

- Inhibited by auto receptors




How are catecholamines inactivated? Reuptake transporters and enzymes.
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CORRECT ✔✔- Reuptake by DA transporter or NE tranporter
ANSWER
- Metabolic breakdown by COMT and MAO



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,What is the nigrostriatal pathway? Where are the cell bodies located? -

CORRECT ✔✔- Plays and important role in the control of
ANSWER
movement

- Originates in substantia nigra where axons ascend to the

caudateputamen (striatum)



What is Parkinson's disease? -CORRECT ✔✔- Damage of
ANSWER
nigrostriatal pathway (substantia nigra)

- Neurodegenative disease

- When cells that normally produce dopamine die, the sypmtoms of

Parkinson's appear

- MIST



Dopamine Antagonist: Haloperidol (D2 antagonist)CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔At high doses results in catalepsy (catetonic
state)




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, Where are Noradrenergic (NE) cell bodies located?CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔Locus
coeruleus



Locus coeruleus is involved in what type of behavior?CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔Vigilance




What is MPTP? - CORRECT ✔✔- A
ANSWER neurotoxin
- Contaminant in sythetic heroin that caused symptoms of Parkinson's

disease in drug addicts

- Caused a loss of neurons in substantia nigra



Mesolimbic system - CORRECT ✔✔- Originates in the ventral
ANSWER
tegmental area (VTA) and axons travel to the nucleus accumbens and

olfactory nuclus

- Involved in drug abuse




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