Exam 12: Psychotherapeutic Medications

Your physician is now treating you for your depression and prescribes an antidepressant.How soon will you begin to feel the drug's effects?

What drug would be administered if you were a patient in the Val-de-Grace military hospital and the therapeutic goal was to alleviate your agitation and help you become peaceful?

What did Michael Jackson's toxicology results show that he died of an overdose of?

If you live in Canada,what is the probability of you personally being affected by mental illness?

What are distortions of reality,profoundly blunted mood,and hallucinations all symptoms of?

John presents in the emergency room with mania and agitated depression.The doctor prescribes neuroleptics.By what other name are these drugs also known?

Fifty percent of Canadians suffering from depression never seek treatment.

After finishing a class in psychopharmacology,you decide this is going to be your profession.Later you are asked,if you could take a time machine back in time,where would you travel to.Your answer would be to the century when the roots of your chosen profession began.Which century is it?

If you were a patient suffering from schizophrenia,what decade would you have been living in when a major medical turning point occurred?

The majority of individuals diagnosed with mental disorders first experience the symptoms in early middle age.

Barbiturates decrease heart rate and blood pressure at higher doses.

At any given time,what percentage of Canadians are suffering from a mental illness?

Which prestigious award did Canadian Dr.Heinz Lehmann win in 1957?

What are manic patients most commonly prescribed to stabilize their moods?

Describe the catecholamine and serotonin hypotheses of antidepressant action.