PSYC 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Mania, Biology Of Depression, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
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Major psychotic disorders: affective (mood) disorders, schizophrenia. Affective (mood) disorders: depression, mania, unipolar disorder or major depression, manic-depressive (bipolar disorder) Major depressive disorder is the leading cause of disability in the. Major depressive disorder affects approximately 14. 8 million. American adults, or about 6. 7 percent of the u. s. population age 18 and older in a given year. While major depressive disorder can develop at any age, the median age at onset is 32. Major depressive disorder is more prevalent in women than in men. Treatment of depression - ect: early observation that patients with both schizophrenia and epilepsy showed a decrease in schizophrenic symptoms when they had seizures, an italian physician, ugo cerletti in april 1938, in collaboration with. 35-40% of patients suffering from major depressive disorder do not respond to currently available medications (ssri"s, tricyclic"s, maoi"s, etc) In a proof of concept study to assess the effects of ketamine in depressed patients .
