Exam 12: Psychotherapeutic Medications

What profession did David Macht belong to when in 1920 his name was connected to the term psychopharmacology?

Tricyclic antidepressants are believed to block the uptake of norepinephrine from the synaptic cleft.Which hypothesis is this a basis for?

Deficiency in which substance is believed to cause depression?

Since she's been on her new medication,Sandra has been drowsy,constipated,experienced difficulty urinating,and has been told that she cannot eat cheese.Which drug is she using?

Which drug was used by researchers in the 1950s to create a "model psychosis" to study possible etiological factors contributing to mental illness?

A psychiatrist makes the statement "to clamp the neuron." What would he have said if he was to use the Greek word from which this expression originates?

Fifteen percent of Canadian preschoolers will have significant levels of depression.

What was an early treatment for severe depression that is still used today?

In which part of the brain has research demonstrated a link between depression and atrophy and cell loss?

People with manic disorder generally experience their first episode in their 40s.

The therapeutic effects of cyclics and MAOIs usually occur within hours of administration.

If psychotherapeutic mediation is the true definer of psychopharmacology,then in what year was psychopharmacology's birth realized?

How many countries account for 75 percent of the world's pharmaceutical sales?

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

Regardless of how they were named,the class of depressant drugs called barbiturates now includes between 500 and 750 different compounds.

Withdrawal from which substance are benzodiazepines frequently used to medically manage ?

For someone to be classified as having a comorbidity,three separate mental illness clinical diagnoses must exist.

What is an unusual feature of the withdrawal symptoms from benzodiazepines?

The prevalence of psychotherapeutic medication use is twice as high among men as among women.

What are the effects of psychotherapeutic drugs on pregnancy?