Week 14 Flashcards
Symptoms of depressions
Beck depression inventory
Physical factor: appetitive, sleeping sex drive correlate only about .23-.25. No directionality.
Affective,
Central to depression, hopeless blue sad guilty
Cognitive
Can’t concentrate, loss self esteem.
Motivational
Suicide is the extreme, engaging in activity is gonna change nothing.no sense of control..
Historical view of mood disorders.
Ancient times,
Hellenic age, black bile physical disorder.
Medieval
Thermionic possession, blood letting. Talking too!
Renaissance
Science
19th 20th century.
Prevalence, of depression is high. Large problem.
A quarter of ladies likely to be depressed at some point in life. For men it is half that for women, 5-9 w 2-3 m any given time. 80% untreated. Usually onset in late teens.
Problem, unrecognized.
Chronic, episodic disorder!
Average duration of depression
6-9m, if untreated.
People get better if left alone, huge range though.
Length 2 weeks to several years.
If you have one, you have a 60% cahnce of having another.
And for each additional, episode ha ne increases for another by 10 %
Depression is. Heterogeneous disorder.
Several types.
Endogenous, exogenous.
Bipolar,
Manic like, hypo manic.
Know the diagram.
No directionality in physical symptoms.
Correlation depression and guilt
Mediocre to weak at .23
No way critical to cureent definition to deeps ion,
Critical to psychoanalytic theories.
Manic depressed more likely to
Commit suicide.
Also harder to treat because they like the condition.
Brought to u when they cause trouble.
Arts society, so productive during manic phase, kill themself during depressive phase. Esp. For arts ppl in Britain.
Seasonal pattern disorders depression
Une light therapy. 2500 lux
Gender differences dep.
1. No dif. Prevail ece is an artifact Argue MASKED DEPRESSIon Antisocial behaviour. In men, women display depression differently. May be true,
- Cultural
Sexual abuse, pressure on women, job family kids. Etc. - Biological
Estrogen tranquilizer and testosterone stimulates, but it is more than that.
Hormones
See slide and note
No diff in pet scans, in happiness or anger,
But women, 8x greater response to sadness.
Women saw themselves as more
Stress and irrational than men. Sleep pro lames,
Men use alcoholic anger aggression,
Men risk take.
Women, lose interest,
See dif in behavioural responses.
Reacting stereotypically.
Comprison to heart disease in day lost in years and
Cost.
Cognitive attributions of stressful life event mens.
Create a huge interaction see diagram,
Uow depression evolves.
Runs in families.
Bip highlight heitable.
Severe vs mild quite different.
Biochemically.
Cra bologna
Dopamine, norepinephrine, stimulate, initiate behaviour.
Serotonin,
Trytophan metabolism in major depression,
5-ht effects physical aspects of depression.
Trytophan depletion recreates depression,
Serotonin turnover in brain in depressed is much more rapid.
Actually not just serotonin. Dopamine tt variant with high maternal rejection. Increased likely hood of being depressed.
Also note serotonin and eRly expereince. Ss allele childhood maltreatment.
Anterior I cingulate. Inverse rela. Grey matter. And depressives. .