Exam 13: Psychotherapeutic Medications

One side effect of benzodiazepine use is .

Emil Kraepelin believed that in order to effectively treat mental illnesses they first needed to be classified.

A person who has difficulty sleeping after they stop taking barbiturates for a short time is experiencing insomnia.

Research has demonstrated a link between depression and atrophy and cell loss in the .

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

Benzodiazepines are thought to act through .

Warning labels and restrictions have been put in place for administering antidepressants to children due to an increased risk of .

The man who discovered that nitrous oxide could be used in anesthesia was .

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?

Of the people who have a mental illness, over three-quarters of them get treatment.

Benzodiazepines are not associated with tolerance.

Cyclic antidepressants are generally more effective in the treatment of depression than are MAOIs.

Barbiturates decrease heart rate and blood pressure at higher doses.

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

One unusual feature of the withdrawal symptoms from benzodiazepines is that .

Tardive dyskinesia is most characterized by .

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

Which gas was used as a treatment for psychoses and neuroses before psychotherapeutic drugs were developed?

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.

Over 90% of the patients receiving antipsychotic medication experience extrapyramidal side effects.