PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Hypersomnia, Psy, Insomnia

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 034
• Professor: Del Rio

Document Summary

Seasonal affective disorder: depressed in fall/winter, go back in baseline in summer/spring , melatonin disregulation, related with sleep. generally in people early 20s. treatment: contraction has lightbulb imitate daylight, lifted, more often in women. Suicide and associated risk factors: gender: f attempts more. M complets more often: risk factor: having depression; stockpiling medication; after coming out depression regain energy; suicidal talk; give away properties as if gonna move. history of attempts; family history of suicide; isolation(typical adolescent) Brain structures and neurotransmitter systems indicated in depression: prefrontal amygdala, hippocampus. Bipolar i: most severe presentation; mania and depressive episode. Mania: grandiose thinking, special mission, can fly. racing thoughts. coherent speech. tangential ideas. excessive involvement in pleasure activity. impulsivity and poor judgement. lack of sleep. Depression: remember anything did in mania episode, more depressive. Cyclothymia fluctuation of hypoman(not bad as bipolar ii) and depression(same as bad), can be function without even know. Brain structures and neurotransmitter systems indicated in bipolar disorder.