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Acetylcholine - Answer✅✅Major nuerotransmitter responsible for the transmission
of nerve impulses in the body, including those responsible for musle movement
agonist-antagonist - Answer✅✅Counteracts or inhibits Neurotransmitter effects on
the postsynaptic cell
Akathisia - Answer✅✅Motor restlessness - from mild anxiety to difficulty lying or
sitting still, to insomnia; often an extrapyramidal side-effect produces by neuroleptic
drugs.
Anticholinergic - Answer✅✅Acetylcholine blocker in the CNS and PNS
Antiemetic - Answer✅✅prevents nausea and vomiting
Arthralgia - Answer✅✅joint pain
ataxia - Answer✅✅Loss of muscle coordination, especially voluntary muscles
, Athetosis - Answer✅✅Continuous sinuously writing movements (sometimes drug
induced)
Augmenter (add-on) meds - Answer✅✅Meds prescribed to increase the efficacy of
a primary medication
Autonomic - Answer✅✅The portion of the nervous system outside voluntary
control (involuntary)
Ballismus - Answer✅✅Violent, involuntary flailing of the extremities (typically more
proximal-closer to torso than distal)
Bradycardia - Answer✅✅abnormally slow heartbeat
Bradyphrenia - Answer✅✅slowness of thought
Brain Reward Pathway - Answer✅✅Located in the limbus system, the pathway
follows the limbic striatum, including the nucleus accumbens (NA) which is
particularly targeted by drugs of abuse; other contributing structures include the
amygdala and the ventral tegmental area (VTA), connected by the median forebrain
bundle (MFB); drugs of abuse increase dopamine neurotransmitter levels in the
reward pathway, inducing long-term dopamine production and receptor changes
that result in enduring cravings.
Campral - Answer✅✅FDA approves drug for ETOH (alcohol) abuse; affects calcium
channels and transmission in the brain along GABA and glutamate pathways,
reducing positive reinforcement and minimizing withdrawal cravings
Chorea - Answer✅✅sudden, rapid, jerky, purposeless movement involving limbs,
trunk, or face (sometimes drug-induced)
Choreoathetosis - Answer✅✅combination of chorea and athetoid movements
Cortex (cerebral) - Answer✅✅Outermost later of the brain responsible for higher
functions such as movement, memory, thought and reasoning
Counter-adaptation - Answer✅✅Prolonged use reduces effect (tolerance)
Creatinine - Answer✅✅Metabolic byproduct in the urine indicative of Kidney
function and health.
Diaphoresis - Answer✅✅profuse sweating, even when cold to the touch, often
indicative of physiological or emotional stress
Dysphagia - Answer✅✅difficulty swallowing
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Acetylcholine - Answer✅✅Major nuerotransmitter responsible for the transmission
of nerve impulses in the body, including those responsible for musle movement
agonist-antagonist - Answer✅✅Counteracts or inhibits Neurotransmitter effects on
the postsynaptic cell
Akathisia - Answer✅✅Motor restlessness - from mild anxiety to difficulty lying or
sitting still, to insomnia; often an extrapyramidal side-effect produces by neuroleptic
drugs.
Anticholinergic - Answer✅✅Acetylcholine blocker in the CNS and PNS
Antiemetic - Answer✅✅prevents nausea and vomiting
Arthralgia - Answer✅✅joint pain
ataxia - Answer✅✅Loss of muscle coordination, especially voluntary muscles
, Athetosis - Answer✅✅Continuous sinuously writing movements (sometimes drug
induced)
Augmenter (add-on) meds - Answer✅✅Meds prescribed to increase the efficacy of
a primary medication
Autonomic - Answer✅✅The portion of the nervous system outside voluntary
control (involuntary)
Ballismus - Answer✅✅Violent, involuntary flailing of the extremities (typically more
proximal-closer to torso than distal)
Bradycardia - Answer✅✅abnormally slow heartbeat
Bradyphrenia - Answer✅✅slowness of thought
Brain Reward Pathway - Answer✅✅Located in the limbus system, the pathway
follows the limbic striatum, including the nucleus accumbens (NA) which is
particularly targeted by drugs of abuse; other contributing structures include the
amygdala and the ventral tegmental area (VTA), connected by the median forebrain
bundle (MFB); drugs of abuse increase dopamine neurotransmitter levels in the
reward pathway, inducing long-term dopamine production and receptor changes
that result in enduring cravings.
Campral - Answer✅✅FDA approves drug for ETOH (alcohol) abuse; affects calcium
channels and transmission in the brain along GABA and glutamate pathways,
reducing positive reinforcement and minimizing withdrawal cravings
Chorea - Answer✅✅sudden, rapid, jerky, purposeless movement involving limbs,
trunk, or face (sometimes drug-induced)
Choreoathetosis - Answer✅✅combination of chorea and athetoid movements
Cortex (cerebral) - Answer✅✅Outermost later of the brain responsible for higher
functions such as movement, memory, thought and reasoning
Counter-adaptation - Answer✅✅Prolonged use reduces effect (tolerance)
Creatinine - Answer✅✅Metabolic byproduct in the urine indicative of Kidney
function and health.
Diaphoresis - Answer✅✅profuse sweating, even when cold to the touch, often
indicative of physiological or emotional stress
Dysphagia - Answer✅✅difficulty swallowing
