A Nurse Is Teaching a Group of Nursing Students How

question 3

Multiple Choice

A nurse is teaching a group of nursing students how the CNS adapts to psychotherapeutic medications. Which statement by a nursing student indicates a need for further teaching?

• A) "Adaptation can lead to tolerance of these drugs with prolonged use."
• B) "Adaptation helps explain how physical dependence occurs."
• C) "Adaptation often must occur before therapeutic effects develop."
• D) "Adaptation results in an increased sensitivity to side effects over time."

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Definitions:

Neurotransmitter Effects

The impacts or actions exerted by neurotransmitters, which are chemicals responsible for transmitting signals across a chemical synapse between neurons or between neurons and muscles.

Receptors

Proteins located on the surface of or within cells, which bind to specific molecules, triggering a physiological response.

Postsynaptic Cell

A neuron or muscle cell that receives signals from a presynaptic neuron at a synapse.

Neuromodulator

Substance that influences the sensitivity of neurons to neurotransmitters but neither strongly stimulates nor strongly inhibits neurons by itself.