A nurse concludes that a restless, agitated client is manifesting a fight- or-flight response. The nurse should associate this response with which neurotransmitter?
1. Acetylcholine2. Dopamine3. Serotonin4. Norepinephrine
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Rationale: The nurse should associate the neurotransmitter norepinephrine with the fight-or-flight response. Norepinephrine produces activity in the sympathetic postsynaptic nerve terminal and is associated with the regulation of mood, cognition, perception, locomotion, and sleep and arousal.
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A client responds to an advertisement in a local newspaper that is soliciting subjects for a research program to investigate effective ways to stop smoking
A research nurse explains to the client that she will be assigned to a group that will use a reciprocal inhibition technique. Which exercise is based on reciprocal inhibition? A) Before she can smoke, she must first take a half-hour walk. B) When she has the urge to smoke, she is to imagine herself being short of breath. C) She will be paid $1 for each cigarette she does not smoke and must forfeit $2 for each cigarette that she does smoke. D) When she has the urge to smoke, she must first hold her breath to a count of 30 and then perform a rhythmic breathing exercise to a count of 100.