Antipsychotic side effect management — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: Which paraneoplastic syndrome presents with psychiatric disturbances, memory deficits, seizures, dyskinesias, autonomic instability, and language dysfunction?_____

Answer: Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis

Flashcard 2: The nigrostriatal pathway is significantly affected by movement disorders and _____ drugs

Answer: antipsychotic

Flashcard 3: Neuroleptic malignant syndrome is often characterized by a generalized '_____' rigidity

Answer: lead-pipe

Flashcard 4: What features of extrapyramidal symptoms may be treated with benztropine and diphenhydramine?_____

Answer: Acute Dystonia

Flashcard 5: Broca's aphasia

Answer: damage to inferior frontal gyrus of dominant frontal lobe

Extra: nonfluent speech, intact comprehensionmnemonic: Broca's Broken Boca

Flashcard 6: Wernicke's aphasia

Answer:

Extra: fluent but nonsensical speech, impaired comprehensionmnemonic: Wernicke's Wordy Widdershins (widdershins is nonsense in this context)superior temporal gyrus of dominant temporal lobe

Flashcard 7: global aphasia

Answer: damage to both Broca's and Wernicke's areas (dominant frontal and temporal lobes)

Extra: nonfluent speech, impaired comprehension

Flashcard 8: olfaction

Answer: limbic system

Flashcard 9: GABA

Answer: nucleus accumbens

Flashcard 10: Which dopamine receptor is associated with the direct pathway of the basal ganglia?

Answer: D1 mnemonic: D1rect