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.

Solution:

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.

Drugs can either behave as agonists or antagonists. Agonists are drugs with affinity meaning that they bind to the target receptor and intrinsic efficacy means that they have the ability to change receptor activity to produce a response.  On the other hand, antagonists have affinity but they do not have intrinsic efficacy meaning that they bind to the target receptor but do not produce a response (Berg & Clarke, 2018).  A partial agonist binds and activates the receptor, but only with partial efficacy. Inverse agonist binds….. To access full solution click purchae below