PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Neurochemistry, Electroconvulsive Therapy, Mood Disorder
21 Dec 2011
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General characteristic of mood disorders: mood disorder: involve disabling disturbances in emotion from sadness of depression to the elation and irritability of mania. Mania signs and symptoms: mania: an emotional state or mood of intense but unfounded elation accompanied by irritability, hyperactivity, talkativeness, flight of ideas, distractibility, and impractical, grandiose plans, usually it"s a cycle between depression and mania. Mania alone is rare: symptoms loud stream of remarks, full of puns, jokes , rhyming, and. Last from several days to several months interjections about objects and happening that have attracted the speaker"s attention: their speech is difficult to interrupt, usually comes on suddenly. Formal diagnostic listing of mood disorders: 2 major mood disorders major depression (unipolar depression) & bipolar depression. Females are more likely than males to be exposed to various forms of victimization: depression is a recurrent disorder, 80% experience another episode lasting. 3-5 months: 12% of the cases become chronic.
