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Mood Disorders Flashcards

1
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Dysphoria

A

Prolonged bouts of sadness

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Anhedonia

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Feeling little joy and loss of interest in activities

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3
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% of depressed kids who are irritabale

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80

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4
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Euphoria

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Exaggerated sense of well being

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5
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Prevelence of depression

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5% of children

10- 20% of adolescents

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6
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% of depressed kids with significant functioning impairment

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90%

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7
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Anaclitic Depression

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Spitz- Infants raised in emotionally cold institutions displayed depressive symptoms

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8
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Depression as a symptom

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Feeling sad or miserable without evidence of a serious problem

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9
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Depression as a syndrome

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Group of symptoms that cluster together on a single dimension of negative affectivity

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10
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Minimum duration of MDD

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2 weeks

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11
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Dysthymic Disorder

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Less severe than MDD, lasts at least one year

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12
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Prevalence of MDD

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2- 8% of children

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13
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How much does MDD increase in adolescence

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2-3 x

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14
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% of MDD kids with another disorder

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90%

50% have 2

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15
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% of MDD kids with a comorbid personality disorder

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60%

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16
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MDD age of onset

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13- 15 years

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17
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Average length of MDD episode

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8 months

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18
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Chance of MDD recurrence

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25% in one year
40% in 2 years
70% in 5 years

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19
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Bipolar switch

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1/3 of kids develop bipolar within 5 years of initial depressive episode

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20
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Diagnostic criteria for DD

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2 somatic or cognitive symptoms

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21
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DD prevalence

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1% of children

5% of adolescence

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22
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% of DD kids who have an episode of MDD

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70%

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23
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DD age of onset

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11- 12 years

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24
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Average length of DD episode

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2- 5 years

25
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Depressive Ruminative Style

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Pessimistic outlook

26
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Amount of kids who think about suicide that attempt it

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1/3

27
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Most common suicide attempt methods

A

Wrist cutting

Drug overdose

28
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2 strongest global risk factors for suicide

A

Mood disorder

Young female

29
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Peak age for first suicide attempt

A

13- 14

30
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Psychodynamic Theory

A

Conversion of aggressive instinct into depresisve affect following an actual or symbolic loss

31
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Behavioural Theory

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Importance of learning and environmental consequences

32
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Depressogenic Cognitions

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Negative styles and beliefs associated with depression

33
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Hopelessness Theory

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Internal, stable, global attributions to explain negative events

34
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Beck’s Cogntiive Theory

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Negative interpretations due to biased and negative beliefs

35
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3 cognition problems in depression

A

Information- processing bias
Negative cognitive triad
Negative cognitive schemata

36
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Negative Cognitive triad

A

self
World
Future

37
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Self Control Theory

A

Difficulty organizing behaviour in relation to long term goals

38
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Socioenvironmental Theory

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Relationship between stressful life events and the onset and maintenance of depression

39
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Heritability of depression

A

30- 45%

40
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4 brain region abnormalities in depresison

A

Amygdala
Cingulate
Pre frontal cortex
Hippocampus

41
Q

What hemisphere experiences cortical thinning in depression

A

Right

42
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Emotional Regulation

A

Arousal is controlled or modified to facilitate adaptive functioning

43
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Primary and secondary control enhancement training

A

Primary Control Skills: Change objective events

Secondary: Change subjective reactions

44
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Action Program

A

Reduction of mood disturbances, behavioural deficits and cognitive symptoms

45
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ACTION

A 
Always find something to do to feel better
Catch the positive 
Think about it as a problem to be solved
Inspect the situation
Open yourself to the positive
Never get stuck in the negative muck
46
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Adolescent coping with depression program

A

Skill training to promote control over mood and enhance coping abilities

47
Q

Interpersonal Psychotherapy for adolescent depression

A

Focus on depressive symptoms and social context in which they occur

48
Q

What medications dont help depression at all

A

Tricyclic

49
Q

Most common medication for depression

A

SSRI

50
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Mixed bipolar episode

A

Manic and depressive episode within a week or moe

51
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Hypomanic episode

A

Less severe and shorter manic episode

52
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Bipolar I

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Manic or mixed episode and one or more major depressive episodes

53
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Bipolar II

A

Hypomanic episode in combination with one or more depressive episodes

54
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Cyclothymic

A

Numerous and persistent hypomanic and depressive symptoms for a year or more

55
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Prevelence of bipolar

A

0.4 - 2.9%

56
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Least common bipolar subtype

A

Bipolar I

57
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Gender ratio of bipolar

A

Equal

58
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% of BP patients with first episode before age 19

A

60%

59
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Age of onset for BP

A

15 - 19

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