NEUR30003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, Major Depressive Episode

• School: University of Melbourne
• Department: Neuroscience
• Course: NEUR30003
• Professor: Peter

Document Summary

Diseases that affect cognition, emotion, and behavioural control. Substantially interfere both with the ability of children to learn and with the ability of adults to function in their families, at work, and in the broader society. Tend to begin early in life and often run a chronic recurrent course. Interactions among multiple genetic and non-genetic risk factors. Gender related to risk in many cases: males have higher rates of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, and substance use disorders, females have higher rates of major depressive disorder, most anxiety disorders, and eating disorders. Most significant mental disorders: schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder, major depressive disorder, panic disorder. Prior to any psychotic episodes people with schizophrenia may exhibit prodromal signs: social withdrawal, neglect of personal hygiene, odd ideas and behaviour, flattened affect and paucity of speech, these are negative symptoms: an absence of normal actions.