PSYC 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Major Depressive Disorder, Occipital Lobe, Prefrontal Cortex
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Emotional symptoms feeling sad, empty and miserable. Motivational symptoms a paralysis of will lack productivity. Behavioral symptoms less active and less productive. Cognitive symptoms negative views of self, pessimistic makes everything worse, Physical symptoms increased reporting of physical ailments tired and fatigue, downward shift of emotional prevalence feeling unwell (lambert & kinsley, 2011) Adults with mdd had over-activation of right pfc and/or under-activiation of left pfc. Smaller hippocampus and reduced neurogenesis (campbel et al, 2004 & airan et al. Over-activation, may be linked with severity of mdd (drevets, 2001 & abercrombie et the amygdala allows us to understand and interpret others" emotions as well as detect al. Preschooler onset (po) depression and emotional processing examined using fmri. Children looks at faces on a computer screen. Manipulation: emotional expression of the faces (happy, neutral, sad) Because people spend more time and are more focus on a sad face.
