Psychopharmalogical Approaches to Treat Psychopathology

 

Discussion: Foundational Neuroscience

As a psychiatric nurse practitioner, it is essential for you to have a strong background in foundational neuroscience. In order to diagnose and treat patients, you must not only understand the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders but also how medications for these disorders impact the central nervous system. These concepts of foundational neuroscience can be challenging to understand. Therefore, this Discussion is designed to encourage you to think through these concepts, develop a rationale for your thinking, and deepen your understanding by interacting with your colleagues.

For this Discussion, review the Learning Resources and reflect on the concepts of foundational neuroscience as they might apply to your role as the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner in prescribing medications for patients.

Post a response to each of the following:

1. Explain the agonist-to-antagonist spectrum of action of psychopharmacologic agents, including how partial and inverse agonist functionality may impact the efficacy of psychopharmacologic treatments.
2. Compare and contrast the actions of g couple proteins and ion gated channels.
3. Explain how the role of epigenetics may contribute to pharmacologic action.
4. Explain how this information may impact the way you prescribe medications to patients. Include a specific example of a situation or case with a patient in which the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner must be aware of the medication’s action.                                      

Required Media

http://neuroanatomy.ca/videos.html

Discussion Rubric

Thoroughly responds to the Discussion question(s).
Is reflective with critical analysis and synthesis representative of knowledge gained from the course readings for the module and current credible sources.

Note

No less than 75% of post has exceptional depth and breadth.
Supported by at least three current credible sources.

 

 

Ophelia

Ophelia’s madness is the tragic breakdown of a total innocent. I support this claim because circumstances outside of her control contributed to her
breakdown (and change in character). In the play, Hamlet says “I did love you once” and Ophelia responds “Indeed my lord, you made me believe so”
(act 3 scene 1). Since Hamlet doesn’t love Ophelia but pretends to, that’s part of the reason she loses her innocence – it’s difficult to deal with Hamlet’s
aggression and lies. Before her tragic downfall, she was innocent and ignorant, but now she feels deceived, especially since she cannot predict Hamlet’s
actions. She trusted Hamlet and he completely let her down after murdering Polonius. Her father’s death is a big reason why she couldn’t stay sane. As
expected, her reaction is madness and she’s no longer an innocent character after witnessing this tragic event.
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[Argument] Ophelia never really got the chance to truly express herself during the time she was
alive. Constant societal pressure and taboos caused her to feel closed off and hold everything
inside. After her father, Polonius, died, her inner desire to express her feelings came out. For
example, she gave imaginary flowers to different people in the play. She gave rosemary and
pansies to Laetes, her brother. Ophelia says that the rosemary are “for rememberance… And there
is pansies, that’s for thoughts” (188-190). She is able to understand her feelings, and by passing
out these imaginary flowers, this is how she was finally able to express parts of her identity, after
being repressed for so long (previous to when Polonius died). Earlier in the play, she seemed to
have a completely different personality. When Hamlet yelled and abused her, she didn’t react
much. However, now she expresses herself more freely. Her “madness” is therefore the results of
her repression due to many societal pressures and taboos.
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Write 6-8 sentences countering this argument using textual evidence from Hamlet. You can
agree with some parts but counter the rest.

Note

Also respond to the questions about why Ophelia is such an enduringly compelling
character (6-8 sentences). What is it about her person, her situation, her reaction, her fate, that
causes people (like the book Reviving Ophelia, the movie Hamlet 2, the netflix series Ophelia,
and the satire video for “Somebody That I Used to Know”) to return to her and keep thinking
about her?

Types of memory’s

After reading Chp. 6 ppt, describe 3 different types of memory’s covered in the chapter. What are some things that you find useful in helping you remember things?

Note

Your discussions must be a minimum of 2 paragraphs. Please use proper grammar and punctuation.

Humanities

Compare Greek Poets Sappho and Pindar.Explain their writing styles.
What are the themes (meaning and messages)