Drugs and Behavior Exam 1

What is pharmacodynamics?

What is pharmacokinetics?

What is pharmacogenetics?

What are instrumental drugs?

What are recreational drugs?

What are misuse drugs?

What are brand name drugs?

What are generic name drugs?

What are chemical name drugs?

What are street name drugs?

How does drug amount?body weight effect dose?

What is the dose effect curve?

What is chlorpromazine and describe its impact.

What is the CNS?

What is the PNS?

Know brain directions.

What is the limbic system?

What is basal ganglia?

What is acetylcholine?

Plays a role in the central nervous system, autonomic nervous
system, and peripheral nervous system.

What is serotonin?

An inhibitory neurotransmitter that affects mood and feelings of well-
being.

What is dopamine?

involved in reward and pleasure

What is GABA?

An inhibitory neurotransmitter that reduces
neural activity

What is glutamate?

An excitatory neurotransmitter that enhances neural communication.

What is epinephrine?

Involved in the "fight or flight" response.

What is norepinephrine?

affects attention and alertness

What neurotransmitter modifies learning?

acetylcholine

What neurotransmitter modifies mood?

seratonin

What neurotransmitter modifies pleasure?

dopamine

What neurotransmitter modifies calming?

GABA

What neurotransmitter modifies memory?

glutamate

What neurotransmitter modifies survival?

adrenaline (epinephrine)

What neurotransmitter modifies concentration?

noardrenaline

What neurotransmitter modifies euphoria?

endorphins

What neurotransmitter modifies attention and alertness?

norepinephrine

Why are animals used in drug trials?

Explain the Oxycontin and Prairie Vols case study.

What are chimera?

What does the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) do?

ensures that safe and effective drugs are available to
improve the health of the people in the United States

What does the FDA do?

What is phase 1 of the 4 stages of drug approval?

What is phase 2 of the 4 stages of drug approval?

What is phase 3 of the 4 stages of drug approval?

What is phase 4 of the 4 stages of drug approval?

What does a drug do to the body?

Explain elimination in relation to the pharmakinetics of drugs.

Explain biotransformation in relation to the pharmakinetics of drugs.

Explain distribution in relation to the pharmakinetics of drugs.

Explain absorption in relation to the pharmakinetics of drugs.

Routes of drug delivery.

What are gap junctions?

What is binding affinity?

What is receptor efficacy?

T or F: Synthesis of GABA makes glutamate.

T

Describe deinstitutionalization as it relates to the pharmaceutical industry.

-treating mental illness w/ sedation

Where is glutamate usually found?

Basal ganglia

What are neurotropic viruses?

What is the first pass effect?

What process converts drugs into metabolites?

biotransformation

What does 120/70 mean in relation to psychiatry and psychopharmacology?

What are agonist?

WHat are antagonists?

What brain region includes the basal ganglia and thalamus. WHat relevance does this have to neurotransmitters?

What are the three phases of action potential?

What type of communication does action potentials create and how does it relates to drugs?

What are ionotropic receptors?

What is the blood brain barrier?

Define and name 3 of 7 major processes in neurotransmission that drugs can alter.

What is a half-life?

What is the DEA?

What are schedule I drugs?

What are schedule II drugs?

What are schedule III drugs?

What are schedule 4 drugs?

What are schedule 5 drugs?