Medical Pharmacology:
Anti-Psychotic Drug Practice Questions
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For management of major depression in patients exhibiting psychotic presentations, an antidepressant agent and higher than typical antipsychotic drug doses are required for effective management.
True
False
Most antipsychotic agents exhibit small antidepressant effects when given as monotherapy. However, this agent does exhibit antidepressant activity.
Chlorpromazine
Haloperidol
Loxapine
Thiothixene
Which one(s) of the following statements is/are correct?
An effective combination for managing bipolar depression involves low-dose fluoxetine in combination with olanzapine.
For patients not responding to the serotonin specific reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), low dose risperidone may increase clinical response if added to the ongoing SSRI treatment.
Both
Neither
This agent appears effective as monotherapy in bipolar depression.
Aripiprazole
Olanzapine
Thiothixene
Quetiapine
The approximate therapeutic like time for an antipsychotic response following antipsychotic drug initiation:
Usually less than one week
Usually 3-4 weeks
Usually 4-6 weeks
Usually two months
The principal acute, early extrapyramidal adverse effect(s) following antipsychotic administration for typical antipsychotics include all of the following EXCEPT:
Tardive dyskinesia
Parkinsonism
Akathisia
Dystonic effects
Administration more likely to induce the extrapyramidal side effect, tardive dyskinesia:
Typical antipsychotic drugs
Atypical antipsychotic drugs
Antipsychotic (typical agents) extrapyramidal side effect most likely to be possibly irreversible, although
rarely life-threatening.
Akathisia
Parkinsonism
Tardive dystonia
None of the above
Photosensitivity along with retinitis pigmentosum is a side effect associated with this antipsychotic drug.
Pimozide
Droperidol
Thioridazine
The prototypical "atypical" antipsychotic agent, so named given their antipsychotic effectiveness at doses which resulted in very limited extrapyramidal adverse side effects is clozapine.
