Depressive/Bipolar/Related disorders Flashcards
Major Depressive Disorder
EDC: must experience at least 1 major depressive episode, can’t have a history of mania or hypomania, must be unipolar depression
-usually incidence in 20’s persist 6-12 months likely recurrent and some develop mania
ASSOCIATED- anxiety, substance abuse, increased mortality and morbidity
-if going through berevement, use clinical judgement
Depressive episode
at least two weeks of 5 or more of
Affective-depressed mood anhedona, Neruovegetative-significant weight change, insomnia/hypersomnia, loss of energy,Cognitive- psychomotor changes, feeling guilty/worthless, decreased concentration, suicidal ideation.
SIG ECAPS
Sleep change, interest loss, guilt, Energy problem, concentration, Appetite change, Pyschomotor changes, Suicidal ideation.
MDD- melancholic
severe anhedonia, lack of mood reactivity, profound depondency and guilt. depression worse in the mornings, early morning awakenings, significant appetite loss
MDD-atypical features
mood reactivity, weight and sleep increase, leaden paralysis
MDD- Psychotic Features
Hallucinations or delusions
- mood incongruent- content of Hal/Del does not involve typical depressive themes
- Mood congruent- content is conssitent with depressive themes
MDD with catatonia
waxy flexibility, stereotypes, odd posturing
MDD anxious distress
MDE with feeling tense, restelss and fearful
MDD with peripartum onset
MDE during pregenancy or post delivery (4 weeks)
MDD with seasonal pattern
consistentwith temporal relationship between time of year and MDE
Normal Grief vs MDE
Normal- emptiness loss, decreases over time and occurs in waves, preoccupied with memories of deceased, Self esteem preserved, less likely to have ruminations of death and if present want to reunite with deceased, unlikely to have an MDE
MDE- Persistent depressed mood with inability to anticipate happiness pleasure, persistent intensity without waves, self critical/loathing pessimism. want to end life because of undeserving worthless, likely to have another MDE
Etiology of MDE
10% general , 20% if 1st degree relative, 30% if MZ cotwin.
has environmental stressors as triggers, with neuroendocrine dysfunction and decreased monoamines.
HPA axis
normal- stressor–>amygdala–> hypothalamus–> ant Pit–> Adrenal Glands–> cortisol–> hippocampus (glucocoritcoid receptor)–> stops production of CRH
Depressed- Cortisol toxicity damages FR’s in teh hippocampus and hypothalamus continues production of CRH failure of suppression of the HA axis
Dexamethasone Supression test
MDD show non supression of cortisol on the DST which shows impaired negative feedback.
effects of Chronic HPA activation
Anxiety, Depressive symptoms(affecuts neurons in raphe n. and locus ceruleus which decreases monoamines), immune dysregulation.