Mood Disorders Flashcards
Symptoms of major depression
SIGECAPS
- Sleep
- Interest
- Guilt
- Energy
- Concentration
- Appetite
- Pscyhomotor retardation
- Suicidal Ideation
Major Depressive Episode criteria
-5 depression symptoms over two week period
Mania symptoms
DIG FAST
- distractibility
- insomnia/impulsive
- grandiosity
- flight of ideas
- activity/ agitation
- speech pressured
- thoughtlessness
Criteria for manic episode
- 7 days or hospitalization
- 3 symptoms or 4 if irritable
Criteria for hypomanic episode
-3 symptoms but less than four days/ no psychosis/ no impaired functioning
(may clean the house for forty eight straight hours)
Good drug for mood disorders with mixed features
depakot (valproate)
Depression is specifically assc with poorer outcome in what disease?
stroke
Major depressive disorder is assc with the highest risk of _____ compared to other disorders.
suicide
Criteria for Major Depressive Disorder (as opposed to episode)
just the presence of one MDE and no hx of mania
Sleep changes assc with MDD
REM earlier and longer= less N3-4
Initial and terminal insomnia
Hypersomnia in atypical depression
Cancer often assc with major depression?
pancreatic
What are melancholic features assc with depression?
- anhedonia
- early waking
What are atypical features of depression
- hyperphagia
- hypersomnia
- mood reactivity
Describe depression w/ mixed features
-manic or hypomanic symptoms present during most days of MDE but do not meet bipolar criteria
Describe MDD w/ psychotic features
MDD + hallucinations or delusions only during MDE
