Exam 15: Practical Pharmacotherapy of Drugs Used to Treat Psychiatric Disorders

Which drug can relieve anxiety along with nicotine withdrawal symptoms?

Which of the following drugs can cause extrapyramidal side effects,such as akathisia,dystonia,and neuroleptic malignant syndrome?

Patients taking nortriptyline and amitriptyline should be monitored for which of the following?

Benzodiazepines are classified as which schedule of drug?

How often should serum,urea,and electrolyte levels be taken for patients on lithium because of the low margin of safety between its effectiveness and its toxicity?

Benzodiazepines are regulated by the Controlled Substances Act as which class of medication and thus have restrictions on their prescribing?

The only SSRI approved by the FDA for the treatment of unipolar depression in adolescents is:

Which drug is infrequently used to treat depression because safer,easier-to-dose,and more effective drugs are available?

Which mechanisms of action accounts for a large portion of side effects when taking TCAs?

When the federal government passed regulations that allowed children and adolescents to be given antidepressant drugs based on studies done in adults,it did so with the proviso that clinicians do what?

How much of a recommended adult dose of antipsychotics should be prescribed to an elderly patient?

What is lithium?

Sertraline (Zoloft)is usually dosed:

Which selective SSRI is secreted in breast milk?

Alprazolam (Xanax)is contraindicated in a patient taking which medication?

An estimated 5% of patients who have taken lithium for more than 1 year develop symptoms of which condition?

In patients taking antipsychotics,tardive dyskinesia usually occurs in what timeframe?

Which option describes the mechanism of action of TCAs?

Although tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)and selective SSRIs have about the same efficacy when treating depression,TCAs: