Other Terms Flashcards
Usually involves feelings of extraordinary sadness and dejection
A. Depression
B. Mania
C. Normal Mood States
D. Mixed-Episode cases
A. Depression
Often characterized by intense and unrealistic feelings of excitement and euphoria
A. Depression
B. Mania
C. Normal Mood States
D. Mixed-Episode cases
B. Mania
Can occur between both types of episodes
A. Depression
B. Mania
C. Normal Mood States
D. Mixed-Episode cases
C. Normal Mood States
The person experiences rapidly alternating moods such as sadness, euphoria, and irritability, all within the same episode of illness.
A. Depression
B. Mania
C. Normal Mood States
D. Mixed-Episode cases
D. Mixed-Episode cases
A person experiences only depressive episodes
A. Unipolar depressive disorders
B. Bipolar and related disorders
A. Unipolar depressive disorders
More common in women
A. Unipolar depressive disorders
B. Bipolar and related disorders
A. Unipolar depressive disorders
A person experiences both depressive and manic episodes
A. Unipolar depressive disorders
B. Bipolar and related disorders
B. Bipolar and related disorders
The most common form of mood disturbance in which a person is markedly depressed or loses interest in formerly pleasurable activities (or both) for at least 2 weeks, as well as other symptoms such as changes in sleep or appetite, or feelings of worthlessness
A. Depressive episode
B. Major depressive disorder
C. Manic episode
D. Hypomanic episode
A. Depressive episode
Require that a person must be in a major depressive episode and never have had a manic, hypomanic, or mixed episode
A. Depressive episode
B. Major depressive disorder
C. Manic episode
D. Hypomanic episode
B. Major depressive disorder
A person shows a markedly elevated, euphoric, or expansive mood, often interrupted by occasional outbursts of intense irritability or even violence—particularly when others refuse to go along with the manic person’s wishes and schemes.
A. Depressive episode
B. Major depressive disorder
C. Manic episode
D. Hypomanic episode
C. Manic episode
A person experiences abnormally elevated, expansive, or irritable mood for at least 4 days.
A. Depressive episode
B. Major depressive disorder
C. Manic episode
D. Hypomanic episode
D. Hypomanic episode
The person must have at least three other symptoms similar to those involved in mania but to a lesser degree (inflated self-esteem, decreased need for sleep, flights of ideas, pressured speech, etc.).
A. Depressive episode
B. Major depressive disorder
C. Manic episode
D. Hypomanic episode
D. Hypomanic episode
The return of symptoms within a fairly short period of time, a situation that probably reflects the fact that the underlying episode of depression has not yet run its course
A. Relapse
B. Recurrence
C. Specifiers
A. Relapse
The onset of a new episode of depression, occurs in approximately 40 to 50 percent of people who experience a depressive episode
A. Relapse
B. Recurrence
C. Specifiers
B. Recurrence
Additional patterns of symptoms or features that are important to note when making a diagnosis because these patterns have implications for understanding more about the course of the disorder and its most effective treatment
A. Relapse
B. Recurrence
C. Specifiers
C. Specifiers
A patient either has lost interest or pleasure in almost all activities or does not react to usually pleasurable stimuli or desired events.
A. Major depressive episode with melancholic features
B. Severe major depressive episode with psychotic features
C. Depressive episode with atypical features
D. Major depressive episode with catatonic features
E. Major depressive episode with a seasonal pattern
A. Major depressive episode with melancholic features
This subtype of depression is more heritable than most other forms of depression and is more often associated with a history of childhood trauma
A. Major depressive episode with melancholic features
B. Severe major depressive episode with psychotic features
C. Depressive episode with atypical features
D. Major depressive episode with catatonic features
E. Major depressive episode with a seasonal pattern
A. Major depressive episode with melancholic features
Are psychotically depressed are likely to have longer episodes, more cognitive impairment, and a poorer long-term prognosis than those suffering from depression without psychotic features
A. Major depressive episode with melancholic features
B. Severe major depressive episode with psychotic features
C. Depressive episode with atypical features
D. Major depressive episode with catatonic features
E. Major depressive episode with a seasonal pattern
B. Severe major depressive episode with psychotic features
Characterized by mood reactivity
A. Major depressive episode with melancholic features
B. Severe major depressive episode with psychotic features
C. Depressive episode with atypical features
D. Major depressive episode with catatonic features
E. Major depressive episode with a seasonal pattern
C. Depressive episode with atypical features
A disproportionate number of individuals who have atypical features are females, who have an earlier-than-average age of onset and who are more likely to show suicidal thoughts
A. Major depressive episode with melancholic features
B. Severe major depressive episode with psychotic features
C. Depressive episode with atypical features
D. Major depressive episode with catatonic features
E. Major depressive episode with a seasonal pattern
C. Depressive episode with atypical features
Motor symptoms, from motoric immobility (catalepsy—a stuporous state) to extensive psychomotor activity, as well as mutism and rigidity.
A. Major depressive episode with melancholic features
B. Severe major depressive episode with psychotic features
C. Depressive episode with atypical features
D. Major depressive episode with catatonic features
E. Major depressive episode with a seasonal pattern
D. Major depressive episode with catatonic features
Also commonly known as seasonal affective disorder.
A. Major depressive episode with melancholic features
B. Severe major depressive episode with psychotic features
C. Depressive episode with atypical features
D. Major depressive episode with catatonic features
E. Major depressive episode with a seasonal pattern
E. Major depressive episode with a seasonal pattern
Person must have had at least two episodes of depression in the past 2 years occurring at the same time of the year (most commonly fall or winter), and full remission must also have occurred at the same time of the year (most commonly spring).
A. Major depressive episode with melancholic features
B. Severe major depressive episode with psychotic features
C. Depressive episode with atypical features
D. Major depressive episode with catatonic features
E. Major depressive episode with a seasonal pattern
E. Major depressive episode with a seasonal pattern
