A patient is diagnosed with schizophrenia. What increases the patient’s potential to mediate the cognitive symptoms of the disease?
A patient with schizophrenia is given an inverse agonist that acts on the receptor 5HT and neurotransmitter serotonin. What is the rationale for prescribing a medication such as this?
October 12, 2019Mrs. Schwartzman is a 52-year-old patient with schizophrenia and no established history of depression. When meeting with the PMHNP, she presents with apathy and withdrawn social behavior, and she reports a loss of joy from enjoyable activities. What does the PMHNP infer from this encounter with the patient?
October 12, 2019A patient is diagnosed with schizophrenia. What increases the patient’s potential to mediate the cognitive symptoms of the disease?
QUESTION 25
1. A patient is diagnosed with schizophrenia. What increases the patient’s potential to mediate the cognitive symptoms of the disease?
A.
Achieving underactivity of the mesocorticol projections to the prefrontal cortex
B.
Achieving overactivity of the mesocorticol projections to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex
C.
Achieving underactivity of the mesocortical projections to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex
D.
Achieving overactivity of the mesocorticol projections to the prefrontal cortex
1 points
QUESTION 26
1. The PMNHP is assessing a 29-year-old patient who takes antipsychotics that block D2 receptors. What patient teaching should the PMHNP include related to the possible side effects of this type of drug?
A.
Hypersexuality
B.
Amenorrhea
C.
Dystonia
D.
Tardive dyskinesia
A.
1 points
QUESTION 27
1. The PMHNP is caring for a patient who is taking antipsychotics heard the psychiatrist tell the patient that the patient would be placed on a different antipsychotic agent. Which of the following requires the longest transition time for therapeutic benefit?
Olanzapine to clozapine
B.
Asenapine to Risperidone
C.
Aripripazole to ziprasidone
D.
Aripripazole to clozapine
1 points
QUESTION 28
1. The PMHNP is assessing a patient who has cirrhosis of the liver and anticipates that the patient will be prescribed an antipsychotic. Which medication does the PMHNP suspect will be ordered for this patient?
A.
Quetiapine
B.
Paliperidone
C.
Lurasidone
D.
Clozapine
1 points
