PSY 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Excessive Daytime Sleepiness, Psychomotor Agitation, Major Depressive Episode

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 100
• Professor: Andrea Friedrich

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Significant weight loss or gain or an increase or decrease in appetite. Inflated self-esteem or grandiosity: grandiosity: inflated self-esteem or an exaggerated sense of self- importance and self-worth (believing one has special powers of superior abilities) Increased goal-directed activity or psychomotor agitation: reduced need for sleep, racing thoughts or flight of ideas, distractibility, excessive involvement in risky behaviors. Increased talkativeness: manic episodes are distinguished from hypomanic episodes by their duration and associated impairment. Mood disorders: unipolar mood disorders, criteria for persistent depressive disorder (pdd) are feeling depressed most of the day for more days than not, for at least two years, at least two of the following are also required: What are some of the factors implicated in the development and course of. Depressive disorders: research across family and twin studies has provided support that genetic factors are implicated in the development of mdd, several genetic variants and environmental factors most likely contribute to the risk for.