Central Nervous System drugs

Question 1

study if drugs that alters processes controlled by nervous system

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Neuropharmacology

Question 2

impedes the entry of the drug into the brain

Answer 2

Blood Brain Barrier

Question 3

treatment of narcolepsy

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Modafinil

Question 4

Treatment of respiratory depression caused by drug overdose

Answer 4

Doxapram

Question 5

Most commonly prescribed anticonvulsant drugs

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Phenytoin

Question 6

Drug used for suppressing seizures without causing generalized depression

Answer 6

Phenobarbital

Question 7

treatment for atypical absence seizures

Answer 7

Clonazepam

Question 8

involuntary contraction of the muscle

Answer 8

Muscle Spasm

Question 9

relaxes skeletal muscles by disrupting the transmission of nerve impulses

Answer 9

Neuromuscular blocking drugs

Question 10

Used for the treatment of malignant hyperthermia

Answer 10

Dantrolene Sodium

Question 11

conventional antipsychotics

Answer 11

First Generation Antipsychotic

Question 12

atypical antipsychotic

Answer 12

Second Generation Antipsychotic

Question 13

first choice drugs for anxiety

Answer 13

Benzodiazepines

Question 14

drugs that block receptor for ACh

Answer 14

Anticholinergic Agent

Question 15

Drugs for Absent Seizures

Answer 15

Succinimides
Valproic Acid
Zosinamide

Question 16

Common drug for epilepsy therapy

Answer 16

Carbamazepine

Question 17

drug for acute management of status epilepticus

Answer 17

IV Lorazepam

Question 18

drug for acute muscle spasm

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Carisoprodol
Chlorphenesin
Metaxalon
Tizanidine

Question 19

syndrome that occurs by withdrawing from a substance that causes addiction

Answer 19

Abstinence Syndrome

Question 20

Drug for decreasing the unpleasant effects due to abstinence

Answer 20

Acamprosate