NR 546 Week 6 Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
NR 546 Week 6 Quiz
- Question: SSRIs are … for 1st line treatment of OCD (Fluoxetine).
- Question: The primary action of hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD, mescaline, psilocybin, and MDMA are agonism of 5HT2A receptors. Hallucinogens may have additional actions at other serotonin receptors (particularly5HT1Aand5HT2C) and at other neurotransmitter systems, and MDMA in particular also blocks the serotonin transporter (SERT).
- Question: The hypothalamus serves as the brain center that controls appetite by utilizing a complex set of circuits and regulators. One formulation of how the hypothalamus does this is the notion that there is a major appetite-stimulating pathway whose actions are … by two peptides (neuropeptide Y and agouti-related protein).
- Question: Appetite is … by the balance between an appetite-stimulating pathway (on the left) that releases agouti-related peptide (AgRP) and neuropeptide Y (NPY), and an appetite-suppressing pathway (on the right) that releases α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (α-MSH).
- Question: Weight gain can occur either by excessive activity of the appetite-stimulating pathway, by deficient activity of the appetite-suppressing pathway, or both.
- Question: Phentermine acts much like amphetamine, blocking both the dopamine transporter (DAT) and the norepinephrine transporter (NET) and, at high doses, the vesicular monoamine transporter (VMAT).
- Question: Buprenorphine is … for persons < 18 years of Stahl’s prescriber’s guide
- Question: Methadone is a full mu-receptor agonist with a long half-life, which can prevent withdrawal symptoms for 24 hours and provide steady control of cravings throughout the day. In addition to its opioid receptor activity hallucinogen intoxication can cause what is … as a panic attack, often … a “bad ” As intoxication escalates, one can experience an acute state of confusion (delirium) where the abuser is … and agitated.
- Question: Disulfiram irreversibly inhibits aldehyde dehydrogenase resulting in build of toxic levels of acetaldehyde Acamprosate reduces glutamate release … with alcohol withdrawal, naltrexone blocks the enjoyment of heaving drinking through its action on reward circuitry, sedative hypnotics act at GABA A receptor sites in reward circuits.
- Question: Impulsive disorders are focused on reward and associated with the mesolimbic
