PSY 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Attentional Control, Autonomic Nervous System, Reuptake
14 Mar 2017
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Psychomotor agitation or retardation, fatigue or loss of energy nearly every day. Feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt nearly every day. Major depressive disorder: depressive symptoms lasting two weeks or more. Persistent depressive disorder: depressed mood for most of the day for at least two years. Premenstrual dysphoric disorder: increase in distress during the premenstrual phase. Mixed featurs: presence of at least three manic/hypomanic symptoms, but doesn"t meet criteria for a manic episode. Melancholic features: inability to experience pleasure, distinct depressed mood, depression regularly worse in morning, early morning awakening, marked psychomotor retardation or agitation, significant anorexia or weight loss, excessive guilt. Psychotic features: presence of mood-congruent or mood-incongruent delusions or hallucinations. Atypical features: positive mood reactions to some events, significant weight gain or increase in appetite, hypersomnia, heavy or leaden feelings in arms or legs, long- standing pattern of sensitivity to interpersonal rejection.
