PSY 150A1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Fluoxetine, Fugue State, Sex Reassignment Surgery

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Psychology Main
• Course: PSY 150A1
• Professor: Feldman

Document Summary

Psych 150: structure of mind and behavior - lecture 4: disorders. Manic episodes & extreme depression mixed with normal affect. Mania involves delusional levels of optimism, euphoria, and energy. Sufferers make poor decisions while manic, withdraw when depressed. Cause of mood disorders: psychological and social. How one thinks about stressors can affect likelihood of mood disorders. Women have more suicide attempts, men have more deaths. Dissociative fugue: person suddenly moves away and assumes a new identity with no memory of previous personality. Dissociative amnesia: loss of (usually personal) memory due to psychological causes. Dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality disorder): two or more distinct identities or personality states. Brain abnormalities (low frontal lobe activity, undersize hippocampus amygdala, or thalamus, larger than normal ventricles) Delusions (delusions of grandeur and persecution are most common) Disorganized behavior (including silliness, weird motor behaviors) Inappropriate affect (emotional responses that are inappropriate for the circumstances, such as crying at comedy shows)