PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Gerry Goldberg

Document Summary

Mood disorders: a class of disorders marked by emotional disturbances of varied kinds that may spill over to disrupt physical, perceptual, social, and thought processes. Diversity in mood disorders: seasonal afective disorder (sad): a type of depression that follows a seasonal pattern, postpartum depression: a type of depression that sometimes occurs after child birth. Schizophrenia: a disorder marked by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, negative symptoms (e. g. , diminished emotional expression), and deterioration of adaptive behaviour. About 1% of the population sufers from it. Positive: behavioural excesses or peculiarities, such as hallucinations, delusions, bizarre behavior, and will light of ideas. Negative: behavioural deicits, such as lattened emotions, social withdrawal, apathy, impaired attention, and poverty of speech. Etiology of schizophrenia: generic vulnerability, neurochemical factors (dopamine, dopamine and serotonin, structural abnormalities, neudevelopmental hypothesis, express emotions (family dynamics, precipitating stress. Personality disorders: a class of disorders marked by extreme, inlexible personality traits that cause subjective distress or impaired social and occupational function.