Kinesiology 1070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Behaviour Therapy, Citalopram, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 1070A/B
• Professor: Harry Prapavessis

Document Summary

While everyone feels sad from time to time, if that occurs most days for more than two weeks, it could mean that clinical depression is occurring. Major depression is a period of sadness, irritability, or low motivation that occurs with other symptoms, lasts at least two weeks in a row, and is severe enough to negatively affect one"s life. Depression is not a sign of weakness or a character flaw. It is a real and treatable medical illness. These pet scans of the brain indicate low activity in a person suffering from depression compared to someone who is not depressed. These terms come from the affect disorder family . Anxiety: specific short-term feeling states or emotional tones which can be either positive or, unpleasant feeling state and physiological reaction that occurs when fear is provoked. [by threat] : affective (emotional), physiological, cognitive, behavioural aspects, arousal is key, trait (recurring or continuous) vs. state (current state in a situation)