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WorksheetsAntidepressant Medications Quiz
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 12mins
Which one of the following is not a class of antidepressant medications?
SNRIs
TCAs
MAOIs
ACEI
SSRIs
Which one of the following is not an antidepressant medication?
Venlafaxine
Amitriptyline
Phenelzine
Donepezil
Sertraline
A 36-year-old woman presents with symptoms of major depression that are unrelated to a general medical condition, bereavement, or substance abuse. She is not currently taking any prescription or over-the-counter medications. Drug treatment is to be initiated with paroxetine. In your information to the patient, you would tell her that
It is preferable that she does not take the drug in the evening
She should tell you if she anticipates using other prescription drugs
The antidepressant effects of paroxetine may take 2 weeks or more to become effective
All of the above
A 34-year-old male patient who was prescribed citalopram for depression has decided he wants to stop taking the drug. When questioned, he said that it was affecting his sexual performance. You ascertain that he is also trying to overcome his dependency on tobacco products. If you decide to reinstitute drug therapy in this patient, the best choice would be
Bupropion
Fluoxetine
Imipramine
Venlafaxine
A patient under treatment for a major depressive disorder is brought to the emergency department after ingesting 30 times the normal daily therapeutic dose of amitriptyline. In severe tricyclic antidepressant overdose, it would be of minimal value to
Administer bicarbonate and potassium chloride (to correct acidosis and hypokalemia)
Administer lidocaine (to control cardiac arrhythmias)
Initiate hemodialysis (to hasten drug elimination)
Maintain heart rhythm by electrical pacing
Use intravenous diazepam to control seizures
This drug, an antagonist at 5-HT2 receptors, is widely used for the management of insomnia.
Citalopram
Doxepin
Trazodone
Triazolam
Zolpidem
To be effective in breast cancer, tamoxifen must be converted to an active form by CYP2D6. Cases of inadequate treatment of breast cancer have occurred when tamoxifen was administered to patients who were being treated with
Bupropion
Fluoxetine
Imipramine
Phenelzine
The above patient returns for follow-up 6 months later. He has joined a health club and has lost several pounds and notes "feeling better mentally." However, upon questioning he still has not returned to the activities he once enjoyed and is still not sleeping or eating well. The psychiatrist recommends increasing the dose of his selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI). The patient reluctantly admits that he has not been taking his medication because of some of the side effects. Which one is likely to be the most bothersome?
Weight gain
Tachycardia
Sexual dysfunction
Tremor
A 36-year-old man has been smoking two packs of cigarettes a day for the last 20 years. He is concerned that his health has deteriorated, and he has a persistent hacking cough. He also states that he doesn't want to "get lung cancer and die, like my father did." He has tried nicotine patches with no success and wants to know if there is any "pill" he could try. What medication could the physician recommend?
Mirtazapine
Citalopram
Phenelzine
Buspirone
Bupropion
Foods containing tyramine should be avoided when taken with which of the following medications?
Amitriptyline
Phenelzine
Sertraline
Bupropion
Amlodipine
Which of the following is a selective MAO-B inhibitor:
Selegiline
Clorgyline
Moclobemide
Tranylcypromine
Which of the following MAO inhibitors is most likely to produce cheese reaction:
Tranylcypromine
Moclobemide
Selegiline
Clorgyline
31.5 'Cheese reaction' in a MAO inhibited patient manifests as:
Precipitous fall in blood pressure and shock
Hypertensive crisis
Acute manic episode
Convulsions
Of the following, choose the antidepressant having both high sedative and high anticholinergic activity:
Imipramine
Amitriptyline
Fluoxetine
Trazodone
The antidepressant which selectively blocks 5-hydroxytryptamine uptake is:
Fluoxetine
Amoxapine
Desipramine
Dothiepin
A 65-year-old man was brought to the hospital with complaints of pain in lower abdomen and not having passed urine for 16 hours. The bladder was found to be full. His son informed that he was depressed for the last 2 years and only the day before a doctor had given him some medicine. Which of the following drugs is he most likely to have received:
Alprazolam
Sertraline
Amitryptyline
Trazodone
Tricyclic antidepressants abolish the antihypertensive action of the following drug:
Enalapril
Clonidine
Atenolol
Diltiazem
Choose the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor that is less likely to inhibit CYP2D6 and CYP3A4 resulting in fewer drug interactions:
Sertraline
Paroxetine
Fluoxetine
Fluvoxamine
Which of the following is labelled as a 'serotonin and noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor or SNRI':
Amineptine
Venlafaxine
Bupropion
Citalopram
A patient of endogenous depression was put on imipramine therapy. After what interval the therapeutic effect is likely to manifest:
Three days
One week
Three weeks
Three months
Prolonged painful erection of penis has been noted particularly as a side effect of:
Doxepin
Citalopram
Bupropion
Trazodone
Diabetic and other types of neuropathic pain often respond to:
Chlorpromazine
Diazepam
Imipramine
Lithium
