PSYC 3390 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Libido, Monoamine Neurotransmitter, Orbitofrontal Cortex

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3390
• Professor: Mary Manson

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Unit 6 chapter summary page 230-238, 238-252, 252-257, 257-267, 267-282. Depression costs canadians at leas4 14. 4 billion annually in treatment, lost productivity and premature death. Two key moods involved in mood disorders are: mania: intense and unrealistic feelings of excitement and euphoria, depression: feelings of extraordinary sadness and dejection. Moods are at two different ends of the continuum with normal moods in the middle. Patients may show symptoms of mania and depression during the same time period. Bipolar disorders: both manic and depressive episodes. Important to differentiate in terms of: severity: number of dysfunctions experienced and the relative degree of impairment evidenced in those areas, duration: whether the disorder is acute, chronic or intermittent. Mild mood disturbances are on the same continuum as severe disorders (differences change to a degree, not of kind) There are multiple different subtypes of both unipolar and bipolar disorders. Mild and brief depression may actually be normal.