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What does dysfunction of specific areas in the brain give rise to?

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Neurobiological and behavioural changes

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Definition of a mental disorder?

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A psychological disorder characterised by elevation or lowering of a person’s mood

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What are examples of mental disorder?

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  1. Major depression
  2. Bipolar disorder
  3. Panic/Anxiety disorder
  4. Eating disorder
  5. Schizophrenia
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According to WHO-2019, what is depression characterised for?

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low mood for a constitutive period of mood more than 2 weeks

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What is depression?

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Leading cause of ill health and disability worldwide

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What is lifetime risk for major depression?

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15% of the population (varies on country)

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Who suffers from depression once in your life?

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1 in every 10 will suffer from depression

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What is the incidence of depression?

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women: 10-25% in women
Men: 5-10%
men are 3X as likely to take their own lives than wimen

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what are the symptoms of major depression?-

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Atleast 2 weeks if:

  1. Depressed mood
  2. Rumination
  3. Feelings of worthlessness
  4. Anhedonia - decreased ability to experience pleasure of normal activity
  5. Diminished ability to think or concentrate
  6. Weight gain or weight loss (>5% change in a month)
  7. Insomnia or hypersomnia
  8. Fatigue
  9. Thoughts of dead and suicide
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What are examples of severe and chronic life stressors?

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  1. Death of relative/Divorce
  2. Loss of social status
  3. Chronic illness
  4. Poverty
  5. Illness
  6. Hormonal upheaval
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What are the leading cause of major depression?

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  1. Severe and chronic life stressors
  2. Certain medications/drugs - drugs for diabetes/cancer
  3. Genetic vulnerability
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What was the treatment for depression?

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'’Shock’’ therapy

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What is shock therapy?

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  1. treatment of chronic mental conditions by electroconvulsive therapy or by inducing physiological shock
  2. ECT invented in italy in 1930
  3. ECT works by using electricity to induce seizures
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What did psychiatrist discover?

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Inducing seizures could relieve symptoms of mental illness

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What was ECT used as?

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Treatment for homosexuality

  1. No evidence it did alter anyone’s sexuality
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What is the world’s first antidepressant?

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Iproniazid

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What does Iproniazid have?

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Antimicrobial effects: Orginally developed for the treatment as an antimicrobial therapy for people suffering from tuberculosis

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Why does Iproniazid have?

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  1. Historic value

2. Helped establish the relationship between psychiatric disorders and the metabolism of neurotransmitters

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What was Iproniazid?

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Monoamine oxidase inhibitory

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when did pharmacological characterisation of drugs start?

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The modern era of the pharmacologic treatment of psychiatric disorders

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Where did monoamine hypothesis originate from?

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Early clinical observations

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What was other compounds used to treat depression originally been designed to treat?

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Parkinson’s or TB

for non-psychiatric conditions (Parkinson’s)

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What did the compounds do?

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Enhance concentration of central serotonin or norepinephrine transmission

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What was the monoamine hypothesis of depression?

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Depression is caused by the imbalance or deficiency of monoamine neurotransmitters”

  1. Dopamine
  2. Serotonin
  3. Norepinephrine
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What does the imbalance of monoamine neurotransmitter explain?
Different symptoms of depression
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What is the hypothesized pathophysiology appear to be supported by?
the mechanism of action of antidepressants: agents that elevate the levels of these neurotransmitters in the brain have all been shown to be effective in the alleviation of depressive symptoms
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What are antidepressant responses?
Transiently reversed, with the results being dependent on the class of antidepressants
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What is there a large diversity of?
Neurotransmitters in the brain
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What are neurotransmitters?
Abundant and associated with many different brain areas some are associated with specific neural networks
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What does 3 neurotransmitters send projection to?
Rest of the brain - reaches cortex and limbic system and therefore explains mood changes and motivation changes seen in depression
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What is Iproniazid?
An inhibitor of monoamine oxidase a and b molecules a and b are in the presynaptic space
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What is monoamine oxidase?
Enzymes involved in the breakdown of bioamines: dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine contributes to recycling of neurotransmitter
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What does recycling of neurotransmitter contribute to?
Production of more molecules of these neurotransmissions
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What does inhibition of monoamine oxidase results in?
Increased levels of bioamines and increase MOOD
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What does serotonin imbalance cause?
mood differences in depression
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What are the modern antidepressants?
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) - 40 years old
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What is the most prescribed antidepressant, well known SSRI?
Prozac
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What is the mechanism of action SSRI?
1. Blocks serotonin re-uptake transporters | 2. Decreased uptake of serotonin
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what has antidepressant allowed?
Revolutionised mental health care
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What doesn't depression improve?
cellular and molecular characteristic of mood/health outcomes
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What does SSRI allow?
Deinstitutionalisation
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What has discoveries of drugs allowed patients to be?
Dehospitalised
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What gives clues about cause?
1. Brain imaging | 2. Postmortem studies
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What are the affected brain areas?
1. Frontal cortex - cognition, attention procesisng 2. Hippocampus - working memory, cogntive function 3. Amygdala - fear, anxiety, aggression 4. Hypothalamus - sleep, apetite, sexual desire 5. Thalamus - processing of thoughts, movement 6. Stratium - Reward
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What does these affected brain areas have?
Changes in size or activity in depressed patients
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How long does it take for antidepressant effect to take place?
3-4 weeks
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What is the possible explanation for why there is a disconnect between onset of treatment and onset of resolution of treatment?
1. • Acute increases in the amount of synaptic monoamines induced by antidepressants produce secondary neuroplasticity effects: 2. • function on a longer timescale 3. • involve transcriptional and translational changes -EPIGENETIC 4. • SSRI mediate molecular and cellular plasticity
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What do you use to study depression?
1. Human genetics 2. Scan of human brain 3. Postmortem brain and animal model
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What suggested the plasticity and neurogenesis hypothesis?
1. Genetics 2. Environment 3. Neurotrophic processes
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What are trophic factors?
• Signal molecules to allow neurons first to migrate to destiny of fate, they contribute to maintenance and survival of neuron – one neuron attaches to another neurons and exchange NTF and keep eachother healthy
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What are signal factors called?
NGF
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What are examples of neurotrophic factors or NTF?
1. NGF 2. Neurotrophins (NT-3,4,5) 3. BDNF 4. CNTF 5. Ephrins
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What is the plasticity and neurogenesis hypothesis?
1. Decrease in the volume of hippocampus and other forebrain regions observed in subsets of depressed patients 2. Also in post mortem theres a reduction of formation of synapse in hippocampus
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What is plasticity?
Changes and formation of synapses
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What is adult neurogenesis?
Proliferation
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What lead to depression hypothesis?
the findings of damage to hippocampus
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What is depression caused by?
Decreases in neurotrophic factors
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Neurotrophic factors
neurodevelopmentally expressed growth factors that promote neuronal survival and regulate plasticity within adult brain → in hippocampus
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What is hippocampus in depressed patient?
Atrophy
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What does precursors in the basal subgranular zone give?
Rise to postmitotic neuroblasts
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Where does neuroblasts translocate to?
Apical zones
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What does neuroblasts differentiate?
Produce dendrites and axons
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What is decreased in depression?
Neurogenesis
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What increases adult hippocampal neurogensis?
Chronic antidepressant treatment
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What is neurogenesis associated with?
Plasticity of the brain
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What does reduced neurogenesis in depression involve?
Trophic factors
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What does stress reduce?
BDNF signalling in the hippocampus
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What is consequences of reduced BDNF signalling in the hippocampus?
Reduced proliferation and plasticity in hippocampus Reduced hippocampal formation
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What is Antidepressant therapy?
1. Antidepressant increases BDNF signalling 2. Neural progenitors in the hippocampus divide mitotically to form new neurons that differentiate 3. Hippocampal circuitry and output increases
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What does BDNF lead to?
1. loss of plasticity
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What is BDNF polymorphism associated with?
short-term episodic memory impairment and mood disorder and schizophrenia
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What does stress reduce ?
BDNF
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What is the effect of antidepressant on neurogenesis?
1. Antidepressant growth factors 2. Adult hippocampal neurogenesis 3. Hippocampal circuitry 4. Output: amygdala, stratium, prefrontal cortex

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