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what is disruptive mood regulationdisorder

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→ Severe recurrent verbal or behavioural temper outbursts out of proportion with intensity to the situation
→ Outbursts inconsistent with developmental level
→ Outbursts 3-5 times a week
→ Mood b/w outbursts is irritable/ angry most of the day, nearly everyday

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How long do the symptoms of disruptive mood regulation disorder have to be present before diagnosis

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criteria met for a year (12 mth) with no period 3+ mths in which all the criteria weren’t met

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What is the age of onset for disruptive mood regulation disorder?

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Age of onset = before 10 but NOT before 6 or after 18 (b/w 6-18)

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can disruptive mood regulation disorder occur exclusively during a major depressive episode?

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NO

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What disorders can’t DMRD co occur with?

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• Cannot co-exist with Oppositional Defiance Disorder, bipolar or intermittent explosive disorder

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what do kids with DMRD tend to develop in adulthood

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tend to develop unipolar depressive disorder, or anxiety disorders, rather than bipolar disorder (if they develop anything at all)

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second to anxiety _________ is the largest area of mental order diagnosis

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Major Depressive Disorder

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DSM-5 criteria for depression

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→ 5 of the following during 2-wk period
• Depressed mood
• Anhedonia
• weight loss (not dieting) or gain
• Insomnia or hypersomnia
• Psychomotor agitation (enhancement) or retardation (slower movement)
• Fatigue/loss of energy
• Feelings or worthlessness or guilt
• Reduced concentration, indecisiveness
• thoughts of death (suicidal idealization)

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what is anhedonia

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• Diminished interest or pleasure

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What two symptoms must be present to diagnose MDD

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depressed mood or anhedonia

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what distinguishes depression from bipolar

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presence of a manic or hypomanic episode

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Criteria for Bipolar I is one manic episode lasting at least a week with 3 or more of the following criteria…

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o Inflated self-esteem/ grandiosity
o Reduced need for sleep
o talkative/ pressure to keep talking
o Flight of ideas/ racing thoughts
o Distractibility
o Increased goal-directed activity/psychomotor agitation
o involvement in activities with high risk (gambling, excessive sexual behaviour, spending money, giving gifts)
o impairment in social or occupational functioning, or requires hospitalization or has psychotic features

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is a depressive episode required to diagnose bipolar disorder?

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NO but it is typically the case

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What is the difference b/w bipolar I and II

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1: with manic episode

2 (milder version of 1):with hypomanic episode

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difference b/w manic episode and hypomanic episode

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• same as manic accept NO marked impairment in social or occupational functioning, or hospitalization to prevent harm to self or others, or psychotic features.

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What is the point prevalence for Major depression?

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5-9%(females), 2-4%(males)

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What is the lifetime prevalence of Major depression?

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10-20% (females), 5-12% (males)

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What is the average age of onset for MDD?

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20s-50s, mean=late 30s

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Biases for MDD?

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No race, SES, or class bias

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What is the lifetime prevalence for Bipolar disorder

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1-2% no sex bias

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what is the age of onset for BD

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Late teens – 20s

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Canadian Annual prevalence of mood disorders

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Females: 6.3%, Males: 4.2%, Overall: 5.2%

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Psychodynamic Etiology of depression

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Anger turned inward at an introjected lost love object

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Depressive Etiology: Seligman (cognitive)

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Attribution based model:

• People with depression have a bias towards internal and negative attribution of events

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what are the 3 types of negative attributions for failure described by seligman

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o Internal reasons: “something about me”
o Global reasons: “Something very big and important about me”
o Stable reasons: “Something unchanging about me”

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What is Beck’s theory of depression (cognitive)

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• Presence of depressogenic schemata (selecting and interpreting events that generate depression)
- characterized by unrealistically negative views and systematic errors in logic

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What is the negative triad described by Beck

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Negative thoughts
o Of the self
o Of the world
o Of the future

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What are the systematic errors in logic described by Beck

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o Arbitrary interference
o Selective abstraction
o Magnification & Minimization
o Overgeneralization

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What is Arbitrary Interference

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tendency to draw negative conclusions in the face of no evidence whatsoever or contrary evidence

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What is Selective abstraction

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picking and choosing from among the evidence things that cast your circumstances in a negative light

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What is Magnification & Minimization

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minimizing positive and maximizing the impact of the negatives

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What is Overgeneralization

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tendency to see one failure in one circumstance as having broad implications for your entire life

33
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Who developed CBT

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Beck

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What is the amine hypothesis

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  • Depression = Low levels of amine neurotransmitter activity

* Mania = High levels of amine neurotransmitter activity

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What are the 3 candidate neurotransmitters for depression

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o Dopamine
o Noradrenaline
o Serotonin

36
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What are tricyclics?

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Inhibit reuptake (blocks reuptake of neurotransmitters into presynaptic neuron, they are left in the synapse longer and remain active)

37
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What are MOA inhibitors

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Inhibit breakdown (inhibit monoamine oxidase – which breaks down neurotransmitter molecules)

38
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What does ECT do?

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Reduce B-adrenergic receptors; increase serotonergic response, theta-adrenergic receptors (relaxation, inhibition)

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What does lithium do?

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Stabilizes serotonergic activity

40
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What are precursors?

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manufacture more neurotransmitter - increased precursors should improve depression

41
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What are Metabolites?

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chemical products left over after neurotransmitters have been broken down - expect them to be lower in depressed patients

42
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What evidence was found when giving patients the precursor L-DOPA

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o Enhances effect of MAO inhibitors (consistent with hypothesis)
o May lead to hypomania in BD

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What evidence was found with Metabolite: HVA (Homovanillic acid)

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o HVA is not lower in CSF of depressed patients (as would have been expected)
o We do see a relation of lower HVA and motor retardation

44
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What neurotransmitter is implicated in motoric symptoms

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Dopamine (makes sense because they are implicated in Parkinson’s and other motor disorders)

45
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What evidence was found through norepinephrine metabolite MHPG

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o Lower levels of urinary MHPG in depression than controls

o Especially in bipolar patients

46
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What evidence was found through the serotonin Precurser Tryptophan?

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o May be antidepressant in mild cases

o Moderate-severe doesn’t work

47
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What evidence was found through the serotonin Metabolite 5-HIAA

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  • lower CSF levels of 5-HIAA in depression

- Low CSF levels of 5-HIAA in aggression, impulsivity, suicide

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what is the theory of permissive serotonin? Evidence?

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  • Serotonin (master regulator) regulates neural activity of dopamine and norepinephrine
  • Reduced regulation = wider activity changes → mania or depression
  • Serotonin stabilization by lithium in bipolar disorders (stabilizes the swings of dopamine and norepinephrine)
  • Reports of successful treatment with serotonin precursors
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What are some problems with the evidence we have gathered based on neurotransmission

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  • the whole spinal cord and other organs also produces metabolites which can be found in the CSF
  • other drugs relieve depression without amine uptake effects
  • Delay between drug effects (neurotransmitter activity levels = 1-2 days) and lifting of depression (3-4 weeks)
50
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What are the problems with using drugs that change neurotransmitter levels

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Equally likely that it’s the changes in affect that cause changes in neurotransmitters
ex. CBT without drugs is more effective

51
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what are some structural and functional differences in the brains of depressed patients?

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  • smaller hippocampal volume

- less left frontal EEG activity (more asymmetry) associated with reduced positive emotions

52
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bipolar and unipolar depression are associated with high levels of what?

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Cortisol (stress hormone)

53
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how do cortisol release patterns differ during depression

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o Release stars earlier in depression (normally 4am – noon, 1am for depression)
o Higher peaks in depression
o Longer release period in depression
o Increased ACTH release by pituitary

54
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What is somatostatin and how is it related to depression

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Gut neuropeptide that inhibits HPA axis - low CSF levels in depression = HPA axis more active = more cortisol

55
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what is the concordance rate of 1st degree relatives for depression

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6 – 40%

56
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______ are Good as antidepressants when no comorbid anxiety

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Omega-3 acids

57
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what is ketamine?

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tranquilizer used in veterinary practice: At lower doses than anesthesia does provide rapid relief of depression unlike SSRIs and MOA inhibitors

58
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list drugs for depression

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SSRIs, MAO inhibitors, Omega-3 acids, ketamine

59
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what are the physical treatments for depression

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  • Electroshock Therapy - memory loss
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (brain subjected to magnetic feild - similar to ECT, experimental)
  • Deep brain stimulation (brain surgery to inject electrodes)
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Where are electrodes injected during Deep brain stimulation

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inside the nucleus accumbens, beneath frontal lobes. (related to release of dopamine)

61
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what are psychological treatments of depression?

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  • Psychodynamic psychotherapy

* Cognitive Behavioural therapy

62
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Pharmacological treatment for bipolar

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• Chlorpromazine
• Haloperidol – dopamine antagonist
• Lithium – works for most patients, very rapid.
- side effects

63
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Seligman’s learned hopelessness model of depression the individual becomes depressed when he or she

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comes to believe that aversive or negative events are caused by something pervasive about themselves.

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