Betty, a 45-year-old married woman was caught in an elevator that stopped in the medical building she was in when she went for a dental appointment. This event has caused worsening symptoms of anxiety and nightmares. Betty experienced a panic attack the last time she went to the dentist and had to use the elevator. While Betty has always been a worrier, she has never had a panic attack before this. She is coming to your mental health clinic for help with her anxiety. The pharmacological treatment with the strongest evidence is:

In the nervous system, information is transmitted by 2 major systems which are:

True or False: In fear conditioning, fear responses to trauma are stored in the amygdala and triggered again by the hippocampus. Current psychopharmacological approaches for anxiety are not cures because they only suppress the fear response triggered by fear conditioning.

An appropriate candidate for buprenorphine treatment is:  

Which of the following mood stabilizers require regular blood work?

Adverse drug effect reports are submitted to:

Amrit, a 32 year old Pakistani woman asks Sue, the PMHNP,  why she has to take fluoxetine 40 mg once a day but bupropion IR 75 mg twice a day.  Sue gives Amrit information about plasma half-life.  Which information is INCORRECT?

The blockade of which receptor is responsible for the side effect weight gain? 

Which of these mood stabilizers is most likely to cause both weight gain and hair loss?

What does an ED50 of 30 milligrams mean?