AGENTS, CONTROLLING THE FUNCTIONS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM - CNS stimulants

Question 1

Agents, stimulating CNS are

Answer 1

• Fluoxetine
• Nootropil
• Sydnocarb

Question 2

Which CNS stimulants are the agents of selective effect?

Answer 2

Psychostimulants

Question 3

Indicate CNC stimulating drugs, which are the agents of general action

Answer 3

Analeptics

Question 4

Which agents belongs to psychostimulants?

Answer 4

Meridil

Question 5

Indicate the nootropic agent

Answer 5

Piracetam

Question 6

Which agents is a respiratory analeptic?

Answer 6

Bemegride

Question 7

Indicate the CNC stimulating drug, which belongs to adaptogens

Answer 7

Eleuterococci extract

Question 8

Actoprotectors are

Answer 8

Stimulators, improving physical efficiency

Question 9

Adaptogens cause

Answer 9

Increased resistance towards stress situations and adaptation to extreme conditions

Question 10

Indicate the CNS stimulants, which mitigate conditions of weakness or lack of tone within the entire organism or in particular organs?

Answer 10

General tonics

Question 11

Which agents is a general tone-increasing drug of plant origin?

Answer 11

Eleuterococci′s extract

Question 12

Indicate a general tone-increasing drug, which is an agent of animal origin?

Answer 12

Pantocrin

Question 13

Amphetamine

Answer 13

• Is a powerful stimulant of the CNS
• Stimulates the medullar respiratory center and has an analeptic action
• Increases motor and speech activity, mood, decreases a sense of fatigue

Question 14

The mechanism of amphetamine action is related to

Answer 14

• Direct catecholamiergic agonist action
• Inhibition of monoamine oxydase
• Increasing a release of catecholaminergic neurotransmitters

Question 15

Indicate the CNS stimulant, which is a piperidine derivative

Answer 15

Meridil

Question 16

Which CNS psychostimulants is a sydnonymine derivative?

Answer 16

Sydnocarb

Question 17

Sydnocarb causes

Answer 17

Decreased sense of fatigue, it facilitates the professional work and fights somnolence

Question 18

Indicate the psychostimulant, which is a methylxantine derivative

Answer 18

Caffeine

Question 19

Which of the following psychostimulants acts centrally mainly by blocking adenosine receptors?

Answer 19

Caffeine

Question 20

Principal properties of caffeine include

Answer 20

• Cardiac analeptic (increase the rate and the force of the cardiac contraction)
• Psychoanaleptic (decrease the feeling of tiredness, facilitates the professional work and fights somnolence)
• Respiratory analeptic (stimulate the bulbar respiratory center)

Question 21

Principal properties of caffeine do not include

Answer 21

Adaptogenic (rise non-specific resistance towards stresses and adapt to extraordinary challenges)

Question 22

Caffeine can produce

Answer 22

• Coronary vasodialation
• Relaxation of bronchial and biliary tract smooth muscles
• Reinforcement of the contractions and increase of the striaated muscle work

Question 23

Caffeine can not produce

Answer 23

Vasodialation of cerebral vessels

Question 24

Caffeine does not cause

Answer 24

Inhibition of gastric secretion

Question 25

Caffeine cause

Answer 25

- Hyperglycemia - Moderate diuretic action - Increase in free fatty acids

Question 26

Therapeutic uses of caffeine include

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- Cardiovascular collapse and respiratory insufficiency - Migraine - Somnolence

Question 27

Therapeutic uses of caffeine do not include

Answer 27

Gastric ulceration

Question 28

Adverse effects of caffeine include

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- Arrhythmias - Insomnia - Psychomotor excitation

Question 29

Adverse effects of caffeine do not include

Answer 29

Hypotension

Question 30

Principal properties of cordiamine include

Answer 30

- Cardiac analeptic - Respiratory analeptic - Coronarodilatator

Question 31

Principal properties of cordiamine do not include

Answer 31

Significant abuse potential

Question 32

Сharacteristics of cordiamine include

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- It stimulates the CNS and facilitates the movement coordination - It is a respiratory analeptic of mixed action (stimulates both the medullar respiratory center and chemoreceptor of carotid sinus zone) - It counteracts the central depression produced by other drugs (barbiturates)

Question 33

Сharacteristics of cordiamine do not include

Answer 33

It decreases the aortic and coronary flow

Question 34

Cordiamine is useful in the treatment of

Answer 34

- Hypotension - Coronary insufficiency - Respiratory insufficiency

Question 35

Respiratory and cardiac analeptics are the agents

Answer 35

- Cordiamine - Caffeine - Camphor

Question 36

Respiratory and cardiac analeptics are not the agents

Answer 36

Bemegride

Question 37

Bemegride

Answer 37

Stimulates the medullar respiratory center (central effect)

Question 38

Which CNS stimulants belongs to nootropics?

Answer 38

Piracetam

Question 39

Characteristics of nootropics include

Answer 39

- Selective influence on the brain - Improvement the ability to communicate with peers - Increase in energetic exchange of the brain cells

Question 40

Characteristics of nootropics do not include

Answer 40

Decline in the highest integrative brain functions

Question 41

True or False about Nootropics. They improve the highest integrative brain functions (memory, learning, understanding, thinking and the capacity for concentration)

Answer 41

TRUE

Question 42

True or False about Nootropics. They stimulate the bulbar respiratory center

Answer 42

FALSE

Question 43

True or False about Nootropics. They stimulate existing neuronal synapses to optimum performance (adaptive capacity)

Answer 43

TRUE

Question 44

True or False about Nootropics. They stimulate existing neuronal synapses to damaging influences, such as disturbances of the energy and neurotransmitter metabolism or ischemia (protective capacity)

Answer 44

TRUE

Question 45

Features of piracetam include

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- It is a GABA derivative - It does not influence the neuro-vegetative function - Improvement begins in the 3′rd week

Question 46

Features of piracetam do not include

Answer 46

It has a high potential of toxicity

Question 47

Piracetam can produce

Answer 47

- Anticonvulsant - Psychometabolic - Antihypoxic

Question 48

Piracetam can not produce

Answer 48

Antipsychotic

Question 49

Piracetam is widely used for the treatment of

Answer 49

- Senile dementia - Asthenia - Chronic alcoholism

Question 50

Indicate the CNS stimulant, which is used in pediatric medicine, as it improves the communication with the child, increases the ability to study and communication with peers, improves school-performance?

Answer 50

Piracetam

Question 51

Which CNS stimulants is used for the cerebral stroke treatment?

Answer 51

Piracetam