What potential hazard could be involved in using an antipsychotic drug like Thorazine in the treatment for an acute psychotic reaction to a hallucinogenic drug?
What will be an ideal response?
Although antipsychotics such as Thorazine can reduce the effects of LSD and other monoamine-related hallucinogens, they can increase the mental confusion or intensify the experience induced by some hallucinogenic drugs, e.g., PCP or scopolamine. Thus if one does not know exactly what type of drug is causing the psychotic symptoms, it would not be prudent to use an antipsychotic to control the symptoms.
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Which feature of Alzheimer's disease is CORRECTLY described?
a) neurofibrillary tangles- protein clumps accumulating between neurons b) amyloid plaques- result from twisted protein fibers between brain cells c) amyloid plaques- protein clumps accumulating inside neurons d) neurofibrillary tangles- result from twisted protein fibers between brain cells
Researchers have found that the ____________ is/are especially used when making
stimulus-response decisions in completing a maze and that the ____________ is/are activated when a spatial reasoning strategy is used instead. a. basal ganglia; hippocampus b. hippocampus; basal ganglia c. place cells; basal ganglia d. place cells; hippocampus e. hippocampus; place cells