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What are the three types of mental disorders?

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Anxiety disorders

Affective disorders (mood disorders)

Schizophrenia

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What are psychosocial approaches to mental illness?

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Psychotherapy treatment: -relies solely on verbal communication to help the patient

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What is the difference between mood and emotions?

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Emotions: transient responses to specific stimuli in the environment (danger), the body (pain), or mind (thoughts)

Mood: an emotional state that is prolonged, one’s predominant emotional state

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What is fear?

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Adaptive response to threatening situations expressed by the sympathetic division of the ANS

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What do mood and anxiety disorders involve? Give examples

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Negative emotional states.

  • overlapping neural circuits
  • overlapping risk factors
  • 60% of patients with major depressive disorder also suffer from an anxiety disorder
  • anxiety disorder most commonly precedes the onset of depression
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What are anxiety disorders?

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Abnormal regulation of the emotion of fear

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What are disorders characterized by increased anxiety?

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  • PTSD

- OCD

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What is normal stress response?

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  • avoidance response to real threat
  • avoidance behavior
  • increased vigilance and arousal
  • activation of sympathetic division of ANS
  • release of cortisol from the adrenal glands
  • usually transient
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What is the HPA axis responsible for the normal stress response?

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Hypothalamus: in response to stress, secretes corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH)

Pituitary: in response to CRH, releases adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)

Adrenal: in response to ACTH, releases cortisol:

  • increases blood pressure
  • increases available blood glucose for fight or flight
  • increased vigilance and arousal in the brain
  • reduced immune activity
  • transient
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What regulates the HPA axis?

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Hypothalamic secretions of CRH are regulated by input from hippocampus and amygdala

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What is the amygdala important for?

What does a disregulation of the amygdala entail?

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  • critical to fear responses

- disregulation of amygdala is associated with some anxiety disorders

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What does the hippocampus do?

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  • has glucocorticoid receptors which respond to cortisol

- suppresses CRH release in response to cortisol

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What do we call the way the amygdala and the hippocampus regulate the HPA axis?

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Push-pull fashion

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What do we associate anxiety disorders with (regarding amygdala and hippocampus)

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Hyperactivity Of the amygdala or hypo activity of hippocampus

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What are the two types of remedies for anxiety disorders?

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-psychotherapy: gradually expose the patient to the stimuli that produce the anxiety——Reinforce the notion that the stimuli are not dangerous

-Anxiolytic (anxiety-reducing drugs)
2 types: benzodiazepines: bind to GABA receptor and enhance function —> suppress activity in brain circuits including those used in stress response
Alcohol has same effect

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What is another type of anxiolytic drug (not benzodiazepine or ethanol)?

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SSRI’s (serotonin-selective Reuptake inhibitors)

-prolong actions of 5-HT by blocking Reuptake

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What is SSRI’s effect on the hippocampus?

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  • increase number of glucocorticoid receptors in hippocampus
  • increase neurogenesis in the hilpocampus
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What are the two types of mood disorders?

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  • major depression

- bipolar depression

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What is the monoamine hypothesis?

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  • idea that mood disorders arose from depleted levels of serotonin and neuroepinephrine
  • monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAO inhibitors) used to treat tuberculosis caused elevations in mood
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What do antidepressant drugs do?

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Elevate levels of serotonin, norepinephrine or dopamine in synapse

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What are the three types of treatments for depression?

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MAO inhibitors: enhance NE and 5-HT action by preventing enzymatic destruction

Tricyclics: enhance NE and 5-HT action by blocking Reuptake

SSRI’s: enhance 5-HT action by blocking Reuptake of 5-HT

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What is another hypothesis for affective disorders? (Not monoamine hypothesis)

What does the keyword mean

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The diathesis - stress hypothesis
Diathesis: genetic predisposition

This hypothesis says that there is a hyperactivity of the HPA system associated with anxiety disorders

  • elevated cortisol
  • elevated CRH
  • enlargement of the amygdala
  • reduced volume of hippocampus
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What is another reason for affective disorders? Not the 2 first ones

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Anterior Cingulate Cortex Dysfunction

Activity here increased by autobiographical recall of sad event

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Is schizophrenia only transmitted through genetics? If not, explain.

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Mainly but not only. There are other factors influencing the appearance of schizophrenia:

  • New mutations
  • Epigenetics (how environment, nutrition and social conditions affect how genes are expressed)
  • drug use or difficult pregnancy/birth
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What does the neurodevelopmental hypothesis say about the biological basis of Schozophrenia?

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  • Schizophrhenia patients show réductions in brain volume and altered neural circuits, loss of dendrites and dendritic spines
  • Loss of gray matter counterbalances by enlarged ventricles

-hypothesis: schizophrenia is the result of neurodevetlopmental alterations

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What does the dopamine hypothesis say about schizophrenia?

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Hypothesis: schizophrenia results from too much dopamine

Why? —> high doses of amphetamines can produce psychotic symptoms with positive symptoms

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What does the glutamate hypothesis say about schizophrenia?

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Hypothesis: schizophrenia arises from NMDA glutamate receptor deficits

  • Schizophrenic patients have low levels of glutamate receptors
  • PCP and ketamine are NMDA glutamate receptor antagonists
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What are the symptoms of bipolar disorder?

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  • repeating episodes of extreme high mood and depressed mood

- Mania

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Difference type 1 and 2 of bipolar disorder?

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1: mania with or without periods of extreme depression, 1% of population
2: hypo mania with extreme depression (hypomania = increase in efficiency, accomplishment or creativity), 0.6% of population

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What the three types of symptoms of schizophrenia? Define each

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Positive: - symptoms that are not present in healthy patients but appear in schizophrenics (delusions, hallucinations)

Negative: impairment of normal functions (reduced expression of emotion, withdrawal of social interactions)

Cognitive: impaired working memory and executive function

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What does the dopamine hypothesis say about schizophrenia?

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Hugh doses of amphetamines(enhance dopaminergic synapses causing release of dopamine) can produce psychotic symptoms with positive symptoms identical to those of schizo

  • blocking dopamine receptors lowers symptoms

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