Test 3

Question 1

Major depressive episode symptoms

Answer 1

• need to last at least 2 weeks
  -cognitive symptoms: ideas of worthlessness
  -physical symptoms: issues sleeping, appetite, loss of energy

Question 2

Anhedonia in depressive episodes

Answer 2

inability to experience pleasure

Question 3

why is a Manic state bad?

Answer 3

-Patient will go on overdrive

-Their speech will be too fast and incoherent

-extreme impulsive and reckless behavior

Question 4

what r Hypomanic episode

Answer 4

○ Less severe version of a manic episode

○ Does not make patient act out in extreme to effect their social/occupational function

○ Its not problematic itself

Question 5

difference of Major Depressive Disorder vs. Grief

Answer 5

Look at symptoms of things that aren’t apart of grieving
○ Feeling or worthlessness
○ Suicide ideas
○ Psych retardation
○ Severe impairment

Question 6

what is Double Depression

Answer 6

Patient with persistent depressive disorder will have a clear cut major depressive disorder episode

Question 7

8 criteria’s that are used to diagnose a depressive disorder

Answer 7

1. Anxious destress
2. Mixed feature - manic ISH
3. Melancholic features- mood state
4. Psychotic features- psych symptoms during depression
5. Catatonic - mutism, mimicking other, agitation
6. A typical - unusual behavior
7. Seasonal pattern -history of at least 2 years where it has taken place in a certain seasons
   8.Peripartum onset - M.D. episode during pregnancy

Question 8

hallucinations vs. delusions

Answer 8

hallucinations = seeing or hearing things that aren’t there

Delusions = (strongly held or inaccurate beliefs)

Question 9

Bipolar 1 v.s. 2 disorder

Answer 9

patients experience high manic episodes which alternate with high depressive episodes. & symptoms go into remission between episode

BPD 2 is similar but patients have milder manic episodes called hypomania’s

Question 10

what is cyclothymic disorder

Answer 10

goes from manic to depressed.
there are no break between episodes like Bipolar 1

Question 11

mood disorder genetic causation

Answer 11

Family of direct blood/genetics have 2-3 times higher chance then ppl who don’t have mood disorder

Question 12

treatment for mood disorders

Answer 12

-Electroconvulsive therapy in 1950s

-Iproniazid serendipity finding that was for tuberculosis

-recreational drug use with LSD, ketamine, and Ecstasy

Anti-depressants
-tricyclic depressants
-SSRIs
-selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors

Question 13

Causation: Neurotransmitters mood disorder

Answer 13

• low levels of serotonin
  -Norepinephrine and Dopamine
  -they work together to regulate sleep/ mood/ appetite

Question 14

Affected brain regions for mood disorder

Answer 14

prefrontal cortex, cerebral cortex, hippo, amygdala