PSYC 3390 Study Guide - Final Guide: Major Depressive Episode, Mania, Hypomania

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3390
• Professor: Meghan Mc Murtry

Document Summary

Mood disorders: characterized starting in the dsm iii in disorders that are characterized by gross deviations in mood. Hypomanic episode: less severe, does not caused marked impairment and lasts about 4 days. Unipolar mood disorders: depression or mania, their mood remains at one pole (just mania is extremely rare, most people develop depression later on) Bipolar mood disorder: switch between depression and mania: not at opposite ends of the spectrum, independent of each other, can experience manic symptoms and be depressed (and vice versa) = having mixed features . The temporal course (the pattern of recurrence and remittance) makes the treatment not only about reliving a current episode but predicting and preventing future episodes (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Clinical descriptions: noted in table 7. 1, having just one depressive episode in a lifetime is rare (15%, recurrent = having two or more depressive episodes that were separated by at least two months. Usually have a family history of depression.