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Pharmacology chpt 14
drugs for anxiety and insomnia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| antidepressants | drug that alters levels of two important neurotransmitter in the brain, norepinephrine and serotonin, to reduce depression and anxiety |
| anxiety | state of apprehension and autonomic nervous system activation resulting from exposure to a nonspecific of unknown cause |
| anxiolytics | drugs that relieve anxiety |
| electroencephalogram (EEG) | diagnostic test that records brainwaves through electrodes attached at the scalp |
| generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) | difficult to control, excessive anxiety that lasts up to 6 months or more, focuses on a variety of life events, and interferes with normal day to day functions |
| hypnotic | drug that causes sleep |
| insomnia | inablility to fall asleep |
| limbic system | area in the brain responsible for emotion, learning, memory, motivation, and mood |
| long term insomnia | inabliity to sleep for more than a few nights, often caused by depression, manic disorders, and chronic pain |
| obsessive compulsive disorder | recurrent, intrusive thoughts or repetitive behaviors that interfere with normal activites or relationships |
| panic disorder | anxiety disorder characterized by intense feelings of immedicate apprehension, fearfulness, terror, or impending doom, accompained by increases autonomic nervous system activity |
| phobias | fearful feeling attached to situations or objects such as snakes, spiders, or heights |
| post traumatic stess disorder | type of anxiety that develops in response to reexpereincing a previous life event that was phsychologically traumatic |
| rebound insomnia | increased sleeplessness that occurs when long term antianxiety or hypotic medication is discontinued |
| REM Sleep | is often called paradoxial sleep because the brain wave pattern of this stage is similar to that when persons are drowsy but awake. |
| reticular activating system | large area where the reticular formation is found, this structure projects from the brainstem to the thalamus. the RAS is responsible for sleeping and wakefulness and performs an alerting function for the entire cerebral cortex. |
| reticular formation | it connects to the hypothalmus, a network of neurons found along the entire lenght of the brainstem |
| sedative | medications that depress the CNS because of their ability to sedate or relax a patient |
| sedative hypnotic | is often used to describe a drug with the ability to produce a calming effect at lower doses and the ablitity to induce sleep at hight doses |
| short term or behavioral insomnia | may be attributed to stress caused by a hectic lifestyle or the inablility to resolve day to day conflicts within the home enviroment or the work place |
| situational anxiety | anxiety experienced by people faced with a stressful environment |
| sleep debt | when test subjects are deprived of REM sleep they experience sleep debt and become frightened, irritable, paranoid, and even emotionally disturbed |
| social anxiety | fear of crowds |
| tranquilizer | depressed the CNS, its an older term, sometimes used to descibe a drug that produces a calm or traquil feeling |
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