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PSY 380: Abnormal Psychology
What is a Mood Disorder |
disorders, such as depressive disorders |
What is a Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) |
A disoder of individual who have experienced episodes of major depression but not of mania |
Episode Disorder |
A condition such as a major depressive disorder whose synptoms dissipate but tends to recur |
Dysthymic Disorder |
Depressive symptoms that last for a least 2 years, but do not meet criteria for th diagoanis of major depressive disorder |
Mania
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Intense elation or irrtabily accomplished by symptoms such as excessive talkive rapid thoughts, distractilbity gramdoise plans hfightended activity is seen |
Flight of Ideas |
A symptom of mania that involves a rapid shift in covesationfrom one subject to another |
Mixed Episode |
Bipolar episodes characterized by serve symptoms of both mania and depression within the same week |
Hypomania |
An extremely happy or irratable mood accompanied by symptoms like increased energy and decreased need for sleep but without any signifcant functional impairmanet |
Bipolar Disorder I |
A diganoised defined on the basis of at least one lifetime episode of mania. Most people with this disorder also experience episodes of major depression |
Cyclothymic disorder
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A form of bilpolar disorder charaterized by swins between elation and depression over at least a two year period but not with moods not as severe as manic or major depressive episodes |
Seasonal |
Term applied by DSM IVTR to MDD or bipolardisorders if episodes happen regulary at a particular time of the year |
Rapid Cyclying
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A term applied to biopolar disorders if the person has experienced at least 4 times within the last year |
Psychotic features |
A profound sadness and unjustifed feelings of unworthlyness also includes delisions |
Catonic features |
Immbolity or a excessive and pictular physical movements |
Postpartum onset |
Within 4 weeks post partum charaterizing a subtype of edisodes of mdd or mania |
Melanancholis |
A sub type oa a major disorder in which individuals is unabe to feel better even momentariily when somethongs happens |
Tryptophan |
A major percusir of serotin |
Second Messagers |
online of reasearch examing whether antidepressants alter chemical messagers |
G-Proteins |
Guanine Nucleotide Binding proteins that serve to modulate actiity within the postsynatic cell are implicated in mania and dpression are possibilty the intracellur target Lithum |
Amygdala |
Helps a person to assess how emtionally |
Hippocampus |
Helps a prson retrive previuos memorys and then focus onthe siuation and execute the appriote plans |
Prefontal cortex |
The region of the frontal lobe of the brian that helps the mantain an image of threats and rewards faced, as well as maintains focus and plan revelant to tho those threats and rewards |
Anterior cingulate |
In the subcortal regionof the brain, the anterior portion o the cingulate gyrus stretching about the corpus of the brain. |
Reward System |
A system of the brain structures whose modifications may help explain why peopple are less motivated to reward during depression and overly focused on possible rewards during mania |
HPA Axis |
hypothalamic-pituitary adrenocortail axis the biological system that manges reactivity to stress |
Cortisol |
HPA triggers "the main stress hirmone it is secreted at times of stress and triggers changes that helo the body prepare for threats |
Cushings syndrome |
Causing oversecration of cortisol frequency experience depressive symptoms |
Expressed emotion |
As critical or hostile comments or emtional over involvement by a family member toward the person with depression |
Negative effect |
Distress and worry |
Positive effect |
Happiness and committment |
Somatic arousal |
Sweaty palms fast heart rate |
Neuroticism |
A persoanlty trait that involves the tendency to react to events with a greater average negative affect, predicts the oneset of derpession |
Extraversion |
Is a persoanlty trait assocaited with frequent positive affect |
Negative triad |
Negative views of the self, the world and the future "the world part of the depressvie triad refers to the persons own corner of the world situations he or she faces |
Schemata |
Tendency to see the world negativity through such stressfull life events |
Cognative biases |
tendencies to process infoamrion in a certian negative ways |
Learned helplessnee theory |
The theroy of depression etiology that indiduals aquire |
Attibutions |
The explaintion a person has for why an event or behavior has occurred |
Attributional atyle |
A person relatively consistent approah to attribution for example the consistent attrbutes of negative life events to internal stable and global causes is thught to dispose depression |
Hopelessness theory |
suggests that cogtive process explains only one type of depression |
Manic Defense |
Mania seen a protection against a painfu psychological state |
Interpersonal psychotherapy
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Builds on th idea that depression is closely tied to interpersonal problems IPT |
Cognative therapy
|
Amied at his or her own personal opions about events an self |
Irrational belief
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People who are depressed are likly to cosider themselves totally inept and incompentnet in all things are worthliness |
Behavioral activation theraphy
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In which people are given acivity assignments to provide them with successfull experiences and allows them to think for them selves |
Mindfulness-based cognative therapy |
Mindfulness-based cognative therapy |
Social skills training |
evidence supports effectiveness of enchancing overt soical behavior |
Behavoiral marital therapy |
is effective in revelling depression with ones who are experinces martial problems |
MOA inhibtors |
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