Medical Pharmacology:
Anti-Psychotic Drug Practice Questions
Side effects include anti-cholinergic, anti-adrenergic and extrapyramidal
chloral hydrate (Noctec)
haloperidol (Haldol)
lithium
meprobamate (Miltown)
Neurochemical abnormality most closely associated with schizophrenia:
abnormal glycine metabolism
decreased brain GABA
dopaminergic abnormality
high levels of CNS VMA
Antipsychotic most appropriate in elderly patients with prostatic hypertrophy and chronic constipation.
clozapine (Clozaril)
thioridazine (Mellaril)
haloperidol (Haldol)
chlorpromazine (Thorazine)
Least extrapyramidal side effects:
haloperidol (Haldol)
loxapine (Loxitane)
clozapine (Clozaril)
A schizophrenic patient has been treated with haloperidol, loxapine, thiothixene and lithium. If paranoid delusions persist, what other drug might be tried?
trifluoperazine (Stelazine)
clozapine (Clozaril)
benztropine (Cogentin)
molindone (Moban)
Patient treated with fluphenazine presents the following day with a unilateral stiff , sore neck and back; What was the neurological reaction--which drug treatments might be appropriate?