NURS 350 Exam 1 Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) Circadian rhythms - Correct Answers ✅24-hour biological process that influences regulatory functions such as the sleep/wake cycle, body temperature, hormonal and neurotransmitter secretions First-generation (conventional, typical) antipsychotics - Correct Answers ✅Decrease dopamine They are effective in the treatment of positive symptoms but not negative symptoms (Halter 676) Limbic system - Correct Answers ✅Part of the brain that is related to emotions (Halter 677) Neurons - Correct Answers ✅Specialized cells in the central nervous system. Each neuron has a cell body, an axon, and dendrites. (Halter 678) Neurotransmitter - Correct Answers ✅Chemical substance that functions as a messenger and is released from the axon terminal of the presynaptic neuron when stimulated by an electrical impulse. (Halter 678) Reuptake - Correct Answers ✅The re-absorption of neurotransmitters to the pre-synaptic cell that originally produced and secreted them after communication with re ceptors on the post-synaptic cell. (Halter 680) 1 / 3
NURS 350 Exam 1 Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) Decreased dopamine mainly effect - Correct Answers ✅Parkinson's disorder Increased dopamine mainly effect - Correct Answers ✅Schizophrenia Decreased norepinephrine and serotonin levels can mainly effects - Correct Answers ✅Depression Increased norepinephrine mainly effects - Correct Answers ✅Mania Increased serotonin levels can cause - Correct Answers ✅Anxiety States Decreased GABA levels can cause - Correct Answers ✅Increased anxiety Increased GABA levels can cause - Correct Answers ✅reduction in anxiety Decreased acetylcholine levels cause - Correct Answers ✅Parkinson's 2 / 3
NURS 350 Exam 1 Questions with Complete Solutions (Latest 2025) M Tab forms of medication - Correct Answers ✅Pill that melts as soon as it is put in mouth Extended Release (ER) or (XR) medications - Correct Answers ✅Tables / capsules are released slowly over a long period of time. In the body.Sublingual Tablets - Correct Answers ✅Form of tablet that dissolves under the tongue Meds ordered to be given intramuscular (IM) - Correct Answers ✅Type of injection that has an immediate release Consta, Decanoate, Sustenna Meds administered
intramuscular (IM) work by: - Correct Answers ✅slow
released metabolized over 1 to 4 weeks at a time The WHO defines mental health as - Correct Answers ✅a state of well-being in which each individual is able to realize his or her own potential, cope with the normal stresses of life, work productively, and make a contribution to the community. Mental health provides people with the capacity for rational thinking, communication skills, learning, emotional growth, resilience, and self-esteem Mental illness refers to all mental disorders with a - Correct Answers ✅definable diagnosis
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