Exam 13: Psychotherapeutic Medications

Which of the following is true of depressant drugs?

In endogenous depression, the symptoms are thought to be in reaction to a particular situation or event.

Which of the following is most likely to cause a lethal overdose?

is the only drug in psychiatry for which there is effective prophylaxis against disease recurrence.

Users of must avoid most cheeses and some alcoholic beverages in their diets.

The psychotherapeutic use of stimulants is particularly effective with severely depressed patients.

Most drug overdose deaths are due to the combined effects of taking more than one drug.

The action of antipsychotics on the produce some profound side effects.

Which of the following drug(s) can be used in the treatment of mania by patients who cannot tolerate lithium or do not respond to its effects?

drugs account for a small fraction of psychotherapeutic prescriptions.

National surveys suggest that approximately of patients receiving medication report symptomatic relief with psychotherapeutic drugs.

The most common method of drug classification in psychiatry is by .

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of barbiturate use. Why has their use declined in recent years?

A drug that induces sleep is called a(n) drug.

Which of the following is a barbiturate?

Which of the following is a benzodiazepine tranquilizer?

Which of the following are symptoms of withdrawal from barbiturates?

Describe the dopamine hypothesis of the action of antipsychotics. What findings support or fail to support this hypothesis?

According to the hypothesis, tricyclic antidepressants are believed to block the uptake of norepinephrine from the synaptic cleft.

was synthesized in 1950 by Paul Charpentier, was initially used as an anesthesia in surgery, and was later widely used for its calming effects on agitated psychotic patients.