Midterm Exam: NR546/ NR 546 Psychopharmacology for the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner | 2023/ 2024 Update| Latest!!! Questions and Verified
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Damage to the anterior portion may cause astrogenesis, the loss of ability to recognize objects via the sense of touch. This may be experienced by patients with post cerebral vascular accidents
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parietal Lobe
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and involved in short-term memory, speech, auditory signals, and smell recognition. It identifies "what" things are - object identification. It contains the limbic system, amygdala, and hippocampus.
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Temporal Lobe
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Disorders from this lobe include dementia, affective disorders, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders (ADHD).
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Temporal Lobe
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controls visual processing. Damage to this lobe results in the inability to form visual memories. Bilateral lobe damage results in the inability to recognize items by sight even though vision is normal.
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Occipital Lobe
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This separates the frontal lobe from the parietal lobe.
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Central sulcus
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This controls the communication between the two brain hemispheres. Is involved in attention, impulse control, and emotion regulation. It integrates impulses from both sides of the brain.
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corpus callosum
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This is located deep in the temporal lobes and is involved in anxiety and memory, and shifting short-term to long-term memory.
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Hippocampus
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This is located deep in the temporal lobes and involved in emotional regulation and perception of odors. All smells travel directly to this structure. Cooking smells can elicit memories of childhood events and holidays. A traumatic event can result in the formation of the fear response, causing the fight or flight reflex within the autonomic nervous system and affects the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis causing the release of stress hormones
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Amygdala
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This is an egg-shaped structure involved in sensory organ and motor command processing. All sensory systems except for the olfaction process through the thalamus, which is responsible for processing all external information
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Thalamus
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A group of structures involved in voluntary motor movements, cognition, and emotion. Movement disorders include Parkinson's disease, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and Tourette syndrome.
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Basal ganglia
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This is involved in complex motor actions and linkage of cognition to motor actions. It is the main input area for the basal ganglia and is activated when anticipating or engaging in pleasure
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Dorsal striatum
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This is involved in the reward circuit and reinforces addictive behaviors.
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Nucleus accumbens
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This is associated with pleasure, reward, and reinforcing behavior. Drug abuse affects the limbic system, disrupting emotions and feelings associated with normal behavior.
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Limbic system [Show Less]