Exam 4 Anxiety Meds

Question 1

Drugs that alleviate feelings of anxiety in humans and that reduce anxiety related behaviors in animals

Answer 1

anxiolytics

Question 2

Large category of drugs that inhibit nerve cell firing within the central nervous system. They include sedative-hypnotics and are used to induce sleep and to treat symptoms of anxiety

Answer 2

CNS depressants

Question 3

Class of drugs that depress nervous system activity. They are used to produce relaxation, reduce anxiety, and induce sleep.

Answer 3

Sedative-hypnotics

Question 4

Thalamus receives sensory information and sends to the ___ , which processes information that we need to respond fearfully to. With rats, electrical stimulation of here induces fear response

Answer 4

amygdala

Question 5

Which area of the brain coordinates the components of anxiety and other emotions?

Answer 5

amygdala

Question 6

In addition to the amygdala, the _______ appears to play an important role in initiating sustained emotional responses of anxiety when danger signals are unclear.

Answer 6

bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST)

Question 7

Which brain area exerts inhibitory control over the areas involved in emotions?

Answer 7

prefrontal cortex

Question 8

Many anxiolytic drugs ___ activity in the locus coeruleus in __

Answer 8

reduce; a few different ways