Glutamate antagonist antiepileptics US Medical PG Flashcards - Medical Study Cards
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Glutamate antagonist antiepileptics Flashcard Deck - 10 Cards
Flashcard 1: Amphetamines exert their effects by _____ catecholamines (NE, dopamine) into the synapse
Answer: displacing
Flashcard 2: Which atypical antidepressant may cause seizures in anorexic/bulimic patients? _____
Answer: Buproprion
Flashcard 3: Valproic acid can cause neurologic side effects, such as _____
Answer: tremor
Flashcard 4: Vigabatrin is an anti-epileptic that exerts its effects via inhibition of the enzyme _____
Answer: GABA transaminase
Flashcard 5: What type(s) of seizures (partial, tonic-clonic, or absence) may be treated with valproic acid? _____
Answer: All three (partial, tonic-clonic, absence)
Flashcard 6: Topiramate increases GABA action via allosterically binding to the _____ receptor
Answer: GABAA
Flashcard 7: carbamazepine
Answer: neural tube defects, craniofacial defects, fingernail hypoplasia, developmental delay, IUGR
Flashcard 8: phenytoin
Answer: fetal hydantoin syndrome
Flashcard 9: valproate
Answer: neural tube defects (inhibition of maternal folate absorption)
Flashcard 10: levodopa
Answer:
Extra: Parkinson's disease dopamine precursor, crosses blood-brain barrier, converted to dopamine by dopa decarboxylase GI distress, nausea, arrhythmias, dyskinesia (on dose), akinesia (between dose)
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