Nur 104 Final Exam Week 11 Final Nursing Care Management

FINAL EXAM WEEK 1198/100 Question 1FILL IN THE BLANK: ___________ is the main neurotransmitter behind reward systems in the brain, which usually leads to addiction when altered in any way. DOPAMINEResponse Feedback: Distribution of the endogenous reward systems in the brain is a common feature of drug abuse; most addictive drugs act by disrupting central nervous system (CNS) dopamine circuits.- Table 16-1 as well all the drug types show alterations of dopamine pathways in some way Question 2L. J. is a 55-year-old male who attended a funeral and found himself laughing during the service, but later that evening he was irritated with himself for what he had done. His wife said this was abnormal behavior and took him to his doctor to be evaluated. After L.J.s MRI was reviewed, he was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia. Which medication is recommended to help L. J. with his emotional outbursts? ESCITALOPRAMResponse Feedback: under Treatment subtitle: The behavioral features are sometimes helped by SSRIs, and these are the best-studied treatments for thesedisorders. Question 3In the pathophysiology of Alzheimers Disease, there are certain proteins that lead to the plaques and tangles that result in this progressive, irreversible brain disorder. Choose the appropriate protein with its