QUIZ 1 Flashcards
mood disorders
Are pervasive alterations in emotions that are manifested by depression, mania, or both?
Mood Disorders
Are the most common psychiatric diagnoses associated with suicide?
Mood Disorders
the most risk factor
with suicide
They interfere with a person’s life plaguing the client with long-term
sadness, agitation, or elation
Biblical personalities who suffered from depression
King Saul, King Nebuchadnezzar and Moses
Famous personalities
Queen Victoria, Abraham Lincoln, artist Vincent Van Gogh
Categories of Mood Disorder
Primary Mood disorders
Primary Mood disorders
Major Depressive Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
Some people with a combination of hallucinations, and delusions
Psychotic Depression
diagnosed when a person’s mood cycles between extremes of mania and depression.
Bipolar disorder
distinct period during which mood is abnormally and persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable. Typically this period lasts about 1 week
Mania
Accompanying symptoms of a manic episode
Inflated self-esteem or grandiosity
Decreased need for sleep
Pressured speech ( unrelenting, rapid, often loud talking without pauses)
Flight of ideas ( racing often unconnected thoughts)
Distractibility
period of abnormally and persistently, elevated, expansive, or irritable mood lasting 4 days and including three or four of the additional symptoms
Hypomania
when the person experiences both mania and depression nearly every day for at least 1 week.
Mixed episode
Bipolar Disorders are described are follows ( for the purpose of medical diagnoses)
Bipolar I disorder
Bipolar II disorder
one or more manic or mixed episodes usually accompanied by major depressive episodes.
Bipolar I disorder
one or more major depressive episodes accompanied by at least one hypomanic episode.
Bipolar II disorder
Related Disorders Classified in the DSM IV TR as mood disorders
Dysthymic Disorder
Cyclothymic Disorder
Substance-Induced Mood Disorder
Mood Disorder due to a General Medical Condition
cha by at least 2 years of depressed mood for more days than not with some additional, less severe symptoms that do not meet the criteria for a major depressive episode.
Dysthymic Disorder
cha by 2 years of numerous periods of both hypomanic symptoms that do not meet the criteria for bipolar disorder.
Cyclothymic Disorder
cha by a prominent and persistent disturbance in mood that is judged to be a direct physiologic consequence of ingested substances such as alcohol, other drugs, or toxins.
Substance-Induced Mood Disorder
cha by a prominent and persistent disturbance in mood that is judged to be a direct physiologic consequence of a medical condition
Mood Disorder due to a General Medical Condition
Other disorders that involve changes in mood
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Postpartum or Maternity Blues
Postpartum Depression
Postpartum Psychosis
Subtypes of SAD & which is the most and less common?
Winter depression or fall onset (most
common)
Spring onset (less common)
Manifestation of winter depression or fall onset of SAD
Increased sleep
Increased appetite
Carbohydrate craving, weight gain
Interpersonal conflict, irritability
Heaviness in the extremities
Symptoms of Spring onset SAD
Insomnia
Weight loss
Poor appetite
frequent normal experience after delivery of a baby.
Postpartum or maternity blues
Symptoms maternity blues
Labile mood and affect
Crying spells
Sadness
Insomnia
Anxiety
meets all the criteria for a major depressive
episode with onset within 4 weeks of delivery
Postpartum Depression
psychotic episode developing within 3 weeks of delivery and beginning with fatigue, sadness, emotional lability, poor memory, and confusion and progressing to delusions, hallucinations poor insight, and judgment, and loss of contact with reality.
Postpartum Psychosis
Genetic studies implicate transmission of major depression in the 1st-degree relatives who have ______ the risk of developing depression.
twice
implicate transmission of major depression in 1st-degree relatives who have twice the risk of developing depression.
Genetic studies
1st-degree relatives of people with bipolar disorder have ____ risk for developing bipolar disorder compared with ____in the general population.
3% to 8% & 1%
Monozygotic ( identical )twins have a concordance rate ( both twins having the disorder) ______ higher than that of dizygotic (fraternal)twins.
2 to 4 times
two major biogenic amines implicated in mood disorders
serotonin and norepinephrine
Roles of serotonin in behavior
Mood, activity, aggressiveness, and irritability
Cognition, pain, biorhythms, and neuroendocrine processes
found in the blood or cerebrospinal fluid occur in people with depression.
Serotonin deficits
Norepinephrine levels may be deficient
Depression
Norepinephrine levels may be increased
Mania
energizes the body to mobilize during stress
catecholamine
process by which seizure activity in a specific area of the brain is initially stimulated
Kindling