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Depression Flashcards

1
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How is depression diagnosed?

A

DSM-5

ICD-10

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How is a mental disorder characterised?

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Clinically significant disturbance in cognition, emotion regulation or behaviour

Reflecting dysfunction in the psychological, biological or developmental prep eases underlying mental functioning

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Other depressive disorders

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  • mood dysregulation disorder
    -major depressive disorder (MDD)
  • persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia)
  • premenstrual dysphoric disorder
  • substance/medication-induced depressive disorder
  • depressive disorder due to another medical condition
  • other specified depressive disorder, and unspecified depressive disorder
  • disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (for children up to 12 years)
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DSM-V criteria for depression?

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  • discrete episodes of at least 2 weeks’ duration
  • clear-cut changes in affect, cognition, and neurovegetative functions
  • inter-episode remissions
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5
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What fraction of adults have depression in the UK?

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1 in 4

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What fraction of children have depression in the uk?

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1 in 10

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7
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Deaths per year due to suicide in the UK?

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6,000

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8
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People diagnosed with depression worldwide?

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300,000,000

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Symptoms of depression?

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  • Depressed mood
  • Diminished interest or pleasure in all, or almost all the activities
  • Change in weight and/or appetite
  • Insomnia or hypersomnia
  • Psychomotor agitation or retardation
  • Fatigue or loss of energy
  • Feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt
  • Diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness
  • Suicidal thought/attempts
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Risk factors for depression?

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  • Temperamental: negative affectivity (neuroticism) is a risk factor for the onset of depression
  • Environmental: adverse childhood experiences, stressful life events
  • Genetic: ~40% heritability, 2-4 times higher in family members of depressed individuals
  • Physiological
  • Course modifiers: other disease that are commonly accompanied by depression – for example, substance use and anxiety; chronic debilitating medical conditions such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease
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11
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Original name for depression?

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Melancholia

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First theory of depression?

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Hippocrates 400BC

Agony of soul expressed by fear, despondency, sadness and gloom

Humoral theory - black bile (melancholic)

Treatment - diet, exercise, purgatives and bleeding

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Celsus’s theory?

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25-50BC

Demonic possession

Treatment - exorcism, burning, beating, solitary confinement, restrain with chains and manacles

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Theory of the 17th century?

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René Descartes - Cartesian dualism (mind and body dualism)

Two collateral histories

  • what happens in and to the body
  • what happens in and to the mind

First history - physical world
Second history - mental world

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Where did René Descartes say the soul was?

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Pineal gland

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Charles Darwin’s hypothesis

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‘Grief muscles’

1872 - The expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

17
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Key brain regions implicated in depression

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Amygdala
Prefrontal cortex
Insular cortex
Anterior cingulate cortex
Hippocampus 
Nucleus accumbens
18
Q

Tuberculosis treatment drug?

A

Iproniazid- 1952

Elevated mood

19
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Which three drugs prompted the monoaminergic theory?

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  • Imipramine (increases noradrenaline release)
  • Iproniazid (inhibits monoamine oxidase - MAO)
  • Reserpine (inhibits VMAT)
20
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When was serotonin discovered?

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1964

Vasoconstricting substance in serum

21
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What does imipramine do?

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Increases noradrenaline and serotonin release

Enhanced mood

22
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What does iproniazid do?

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Inhibits monoamine oxidase (MAO)

The enzyme that catalyses

Adrenaline and noradrenaline —> dihydroxymandelic acid

Serotonin —> 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid

Enhanced mood

23
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What does reserpine do?

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Inhibit vesicular monoamine transporter (VMAT)

Therefore - depletes serotonin

Low mood

24
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Different antidepressants?

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  • MAOA inhibitors
  • Tricyclic antidepressants
  • Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
25
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Side effects of antidepressants

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  • Reduced libido
  • Appetite
  • Vomiting
  • Nausea
  • Irritability
  • Anxiety
  • Insomnia
  • Headaches
26
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Negatives of antidepressants

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  • Side effects - vomiting etc
  • Delayed by ~4weeks onset of therapeutic effects
  • Acute depletion of tryptophan does not cause depression
  • Only 1 in 3 patients achieve remission
  • Only reduce frequency, duration and severity of symptoms
  • Reduce mortality by suicide
27
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Effects of reduced tryptophan

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  • Environment and mental state
  • Different sensitivity of 5-HT receptors
  • Changes in other neurotransmitters - NO, BDNF, kynurenic acid
  • Cerebrovascular changes
  • Amino Avis inbalance
  • Protein synthesis

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