PSY240H1 Lecture Notes - Major Depressive Episode, Dysthymia, Psychomotor Agitation

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY240H1
• Professor: M.Mc Kay

Document Summary

Psy240 lecture 4 may 30: mood disorders (chapters 9 & 10) Learning objectives: unipolar depression (people experience only depression, without mania, bipolar, suicide. Major/unipolar depression: mdd common disorder: depression, common. Lifetime prevalence rates for canadians range from 8. 2% to 12. 2% Who prediction: by 2020, if current trends continue, major depressive disorder will be second most common disorder overall. Treatment resistant (if depression recurs within patients; this can present treatment complications so there is a big emphasis on relapse prevention in the field) Major depressive episode dsm-iv: five or more symptoms occurring within the same 2 week period. Poor concentration and attention, indecisiveness, poor self-esteem, hopelessness, suicidal thoughts, delusions (beliefs with no basis in reality) and hallucinations (involves seeing/hearing/feeling things that are not real) Sleep or appetite disturbances, psychomotor retardation (walk/talk/gesture more slowly/quietly) or agitation (cannot sit still), catatonia, fatigue, loss of energy, early morning awakening (they awaken at 3 or 4 a. m. and cannot get back to sleep)