Psychopharmacology
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- Medicine commonly used to treat Anti-Anxiety?
- Benzodiazepine or Anxiolytic medications
- Other medicines used to treat anxiety
- Beta-blockers, Busiprone (Buspar), and Antihitamines
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Commonly Used Benzodiazepines
anxiety - Librium, Xanax, Tranxene, Valium, Ativan, Serax, Dalmane, and Restoril
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Main side effect of Benzodiazepines
anxiety - Central Nervous system effects
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Common side effects of Benzodiazepines
anxiety - Fatigue, dizzines, confusion, drowsiness, Impaired motor coordination, headache, irritability, Restlessness, and memory impairment
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Busiprone basic information
anxiety -
No sedative effects
Not addicitive
Good for anxiety/depression combinations
2 weeks for full effect -
Busirpone contraindications
anxiety -
Not to be used in crisis interventions
Not to be used with Haloperidol, MAO inhibitors, or Antabuse -
Busiprone side effects
anxiety - Nausea, headache, dizziness
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Beta-blocker information and side effects
anxiety -
Effective with anticipatory anxiety
Side effects - sedation, hypotension, and decreased heart rate -
Antihistamines information
anxiety -
Rarely used for anxiety
Rabidly absorbed
Sedative effect - Antidepressant medication targets
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Depressed effect
Physicological symptoms (sleep, energy)
Phobias
Anxiety with other symptoms
Compulsion - Tricyclic Antidepressant medications
- Elavil, Sinequan, Pamelor, Anafranil, Vivatyl, and Tofranil
- Tricyclic Antidepressant side effects
- Sedative with anticholinergic effects (dry mouth, constipation, urinary hesitancy) and sexual dysfunction
- MAO Inhibitors medications
- Nardil and Parnate
- MAO Inhibitors side effects
- Dry mouth, dizziness, insomnia, weakness, hypotension, weight gain
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MAO Inhibitors basic informaiton
depression - Effective in treatment of depression, atypical depression, and anxiety
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MAO Inhibitors contraindications
depression -
Avoid foods that have high amino acid tyramine content (cheese, chocolate, yogurt) - results in hypertension
Not to be taken with some drugs including Prozac, cocaine -
SSRI
depression - Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors
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Commonly prescribed SSRI
depression - Prozac, Paxil, Effexor, Zoloft, Celexa, Remeron, and Desyrel
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SSRI side effects
depression - headache, nausea, anxiety, constipation, headache, sedation
- SSRI contraindications
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Not to be taken with:
Benzodiazepines, busiprone, tricyclic antidepressants, L-Tryptophan, litium, and carbamzepine - SSRI dx uses
- Major depression, dysthymia, obsessive-compulsive, and bulimia
- New Antidepressant Drugs
- Serzone and Wellbutrin
- Antipsychotics dx uses
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Serious psychiatric disorders including:
Schizophrenia, delusional disorder, dementia, major depressions involving psychotic symptoms, and sometimes for schizotypal personality disorders - Antipsychotics also are known as...
- Major tranquilizers or neuropletics
- Commonly prescribed Antipsychotic medications include
- Thorazine, Mellaril, Stelazine, Haldol, Prolixin, Navane, Clozaril, Risperdal, Zyprexa, Clozapine
- Antipsychotic side effects
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- Tardive dyskinesia (involuntary movements)
- Dystonias (disorderd tissue tone, miniseizures)
- Anticholinergic (weight gain, constipation, confusion)
- Malignant Syndrome (catatonic stupor, fever)
- Akathisia (restlessness)
Parkinsonian symptoms (hand tremors, shuffling, slow speech) - Mood-Stabilizers basic information
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Used to treat Bipolar disorder
Keeps mood from dropping or elevating - Mood-Stabilizing medications include:
- Lithium, Depakote, and Tegretol
- Lithium side effects
- weight gain, fatigue, nausea, confusion, diarrehea, muscle weakness, hand tremors
- Mood-Stabilizing - Important information for use of Lithium
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Must monitor blood levels to prevent toxic effects
Takes up to 3 weeks to work - Psychostimulants uses
- Primarily ADHD, but also with narcolepsy and obesity
- Psychostimulants - Important informaiton
- High potential for abuse
- Commonly prescribed Psychostimulants
- Dextroamphetamine, Ritalin, Pemoline
- Psychostiumulant side effects
- Insomnia, loss of appetite, anxiety, gastrointestinal pain, cardiac arrythmia
- How Psychotimulants work
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with ADHD - a paradoxical response so they experience ability to concentrate and exercise self-control
others - creates wakefulness, improved mood, and alertness - Lithium contraindications
- Must monitor blood levels to prevent toxic side effects
- Important Psychostimulant information
- HIGH abuse potential
- Common Psychostimulant medications
- Dextroamphetamine, Ritalin, and Pemoline
- Effects of Psychostimulants
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Normal - wakefulness, alertness, improved mood
ADHD individual - paradoxical response with increased ability to concentrate and exercise self-control - Psychostimulant side effects
- Insomnia, loss of appetite, anxiety, gastrointestinal pain, and cardiac arrythmia