Psychology 2320A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Basal Ganglia, Active Listening, Thalamus
29 Sep 2014
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Psych 2042b lecture 7 notes: bipolar disorder (bd, features: a striking period of unusually and persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood, alternating with or accompanied by one or more major depressive episodes. Elation and euphoria can quickly change to anger and hostility if behavior is impeded: may be experienced simultaneously with depression. These symptoms overlap with adhd quite well: 3 subtypes based on whether kid displays manic, mixed, or hypomanic episode. Bipolar i disorder: mania, bigger crests. Bipolar ii disorder: hypomania, you have these small crests on the mood swing graph, hypo small mania crests. The kid might have been playing around, and just jumped off without thinking, this is probably a self-control problem, impulsiveness, probably. Brain imaging studies in adolescencents with bp point to abnormalities in parts of the brain that: regulate emotion, plan executive functions, control memory, regulate sleep patterns. In general, ----- is the first choice in the treatment of bp: cognitive-behavioral therapy b.
