Anxiolytic & Hypnotic Drugs Quiz

Sleep and Anxiolytics

• Hypnotics, sedatives, and anxiolytics promote sleep and encourage the onset and/or maintenance of a state of sleep.
• Anxiolytics decrease motor or mental activity, reducing anxiety and fear.

Phobias and Anxiety Disorders

• Specific phobia involves excessive, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to avoidance and anxiety.
• Phobias lead to avoidance and anxiety.

Sleep Stages

• REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep is characterized by shallow irregular respiration, rapid unstable pulse, rapid eye movement, and dreaming.
• Stage 2 sleep is characterized by the greatest proportion spent in this stage.

Drugs and Receptors

• Barbiturates are rarely used due to many disadvantages.
• Anxiolytics are used to reduce anxiety and fear, and can be described as anti-anxiety drugs.
• Azapirones are a receptor agonist group that includes buspirone and ipsapirone.

Sleep Deprivation

• Deprivation of REM phase of sleep leads to negative effects on the body.

Psychological Disorders

• Phobias involve excessive, irrational fear leading to avoidance and anxiety.
• Catatonia is a neurological finding characterized by prolonged muscular rigidity, immobility, decreased response to external stimuli, and reduced sensitivity to pain.
• Catatonic schizophrenia is a type of schizophrenia characterized by periods of physical rigidity, negativism, and excitement, where catalepsy is one symptom.
• Euphoria is a term that refers to a sensation of well-being.
• Illness or disease with psychological or behavioral manifestations associated with impaired function is referred to as psychopathology.
• Psychosis is a term that refers to the loss of reality with delusions and hallucinations, such as in schizophrenia.

Test your knowledge of anxiolytic and hypnotic drugs with this quiz. Explore the definitions, functions, and dosage effects of these medications.