PSYC 2280 Lecture 7: 7 - Mood Disorders
29 Apr 2016
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Normal experience vs. gross deviations in mood (intensity and duration: fundamental mood states - depression and mania (abnormally exaggerated elation,joy, euphoria), singularly or together. Big implications for diagnosis and for treatment - alleviation of current symptoms, and prevention of future episodes. Unipolar mood disorder: experience of depression or mania: one pole of the continuum, really down really up. Bipolar mood disorder: alternative between poles. Mixed features: related but independent: one of the mood states, with symptoms of other, more common than once thought. 30% of hospitalized patients with acute mania have mixed episodes. The symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. The occurrence of a major depressive episode isn"t better explained by schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia, schizophreniform disorder, delusional disorder, or other specified and unspecified schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders. (not better explained by something else) There has never been a manic episode or a hypomanic episode.
