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What are the symptoms of depression?
Once someone has been depressed they are likely to have another episode and are also more likely to occur in the future.
Heritibility If someone in direct family have suffered from depression what is the likeliness of an individual from the family also getting depressed?
What is another cause of depression in regards to Neurochemistry?
How does the environment cause depression in relation to temprement?
How do thinking styles trigger depression?
How does behaviour trigger depression?
What are the two broad approaches to depression?
What is cognitive behavioural therapy?
Interpersonal therapy.
Tricyclics
One way of conceptualising depression is...?
When using medication alone how effective is it?
When you use medication with psychological intervention does depression drop or not improve by much?
What is the criteria for bipolar 1?
What is the criteria for bipolar 2?
What age is Bipolar 1 most commonly found?
What age is bipoalr 2 found?
Central feature of bipolar 1?
What are the main factors of a manic episode?
What are the symptoms of a manic episode?
Inflated self-esteem or grandiosity.
Decreased need for sleep (e.g. feels rested after only 3 hours of sleep).
Flight of ideas or subjective experience that thoughts are racing. E.g. talk about how they have all these wonderful ideas but can't express them
Increase in goal-directed activity (either socially, at work or school, or sexually) or
psycho-motor agitation (i.e., purposeless non-goal-directed activity).
What is A Hypomanic Episode?
What is the criteria for A Hypomanic Episode?
High component of heritability more so than with depression somewhat over lap with schizophrenia. Stress plays a major role in bipolar.
What is the most often used form of medication to treat bipolar and why?
Other anti-depressants need to be used with a lot of caution. Why?
How does Psychological interventions work?
How Psychological intervention work continued...
People with bipolar disorder are at a heightened risk of suicide why?
