PSYC*3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Major Depressive Disorder, Major Depressive Episode, Hypomania
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Mood disorders: characterized by gross deviations in mood state and energy. Hypomanic episode: not as severe as a manic episode. Unipolar mood disorder: mood remains at one pole of depression-mania continuum. Bipolar mood disorder: mood varies between depressive and manic states. Major depressive disorder: presence of depression, absence of mania. Persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia): depression relatively unchanged over long periods. Double depression : with psychotic features (hallucinations, delusions, with anxious distress (mild to severe, with mixed features, with melancholic features, with atypical features (catalepsy, with catatonic features, with peripartum onset, with seasonal pattern (seasonal affective disorder - sad) Persistent depressive disorder may last 20-30 years. Chronic irritability, anger, aggression, hyperarousal, frequent temper tantrums. B ii d: 22 years (10-13% progress to b i d) Women twice as likely to get mood disorders. Worldwide: 16% lifetime, 6. 5% in preceding 10 months. Prevalence rates seem to decreasing over time in canada. Mood disorders in children similar to mood disorders in adults.
