PSYC 412 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Panic Disorder, Drug Overdose, Frontal Lobe

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 412
• Professor: Melanie Dirks

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Irritability refers to easy annoyance and touchiness, characterized by an angry mood and temper outbursts: one of the most co-occurring symptoms of depression. 36% of community samples: at the other end of the spectrum are a smaller number of youths, who experience episodes of mania and euphoria and suffer from a combination of extreme highs and extreme lows bipolar disorder. Depressive disorders: thought for a long time that children did not get depressed, and when they did, the depression would be short-lived. We now know this is not true: often accompanied with anxiety or oppositional/conduct disorders. Symptoms must reflect a change in behavior, persist over time, and cause significant impairment in functioning. Anatomy of depression: as a symptom, depression refers to feeling sad or miserable, often occur without the existence of a serious pb, are common and temporary, as a syndrome, depression is more than a sad mood.