PSY 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Amitriptyline, Valproate, Xerostomia
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Chapter 7: mood disorders and suicide powerpoint notes. Major depressive episode: extreme depression, 2 weeks, cognitive symptoms: such as worthlessness and indecisiveness, physical dysfunction, anhedonia: loss of pleasure or interest in things, duration 6 to 9 months, untreated. Unipolar disorders: depression or mania alone, typically depression. Bipolar disorders: depression and mania, mixed episodes. Major depressive disorder: no mania/hypomania, single episode: as many as 85% if single-episodes cases have a second episode. Rare: recurrent: 2 or more episodes separated by two months or more during which the individual was not depressed. Children and adolescents: similar to adults, sex ratio 50:50, prevalence. Older adults: prevalence 16% worldwide, over 65 years of genereal population, female:male = 1:1, diagnostic difficulty. Onset: low until early teens, mean age = 30. Comorbid disorders or anxiety symptoms: mixed features. At least 3 symptoms of mania: melancholic. 13-19% meet criteria for depression: seasonal pattern. Onset and duration: onset average 30 years old for depression.
