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MODULE 1: MOOD DISORDERS
Youth with major depressive disorder often display? - ✔✔✔ correct answer >
irritable mood rather than dysphoria.
mood disturbance symptoms in depression - ✔✔✔ correct answer > mood
change: painful arousal, hypersensitivity to unpleasant events,
insensitivity to pleasant events, insensitivity to unpleasant events,
reduced anticipatory pleasure, anhedonia affecting blunting, apathy
disruptive mood dysregulation disorder - ✔✔✔ correct answer > severe
recurrent temper outbursts manifested verbally (verbal rages) and/or
behaviorally (physical aggression toward people or property) that are
grossly out of proportion in intensity or duration to the situation or
provocation
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,disruptive mood dysregulation disorder Diagnostic Criteria - ✔✔✔ correct
answer > The temper outbursts occur, on average, three or more times per
week
The mood between temper outbursts is persistently irritable or angry
most of the day, nearly every day, and is observable by other
have been present for 12 or more months.
family and twin data collectively suggest that genes explain
approximately what percent of bipolar disorder and what percent of major
depression - ✔✔✔ correct answer > 75%, 37%
persistent depressive disorder - ✔✔✔ correct answer > depressed mood for
most of the day, for most days than not, as indicated by either subjective
account or observation by others, for at least 2 years
persistent depressive disorder characteristics - ✔✔✔ correct answer > 1. Poor
appetite or overeating.
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,2. Insomnia or hypersomnia.
3. Low energy or fatigue.
4. Low self-esteem.
5. Poor concentration or difficulty making decisions.
6. Feelings of hopelessness
Symptoms, characteristics, and potential complications of
Bipolar Postpartum - ✔✔✔ correct answer > Fifty percent of"postpartum"
major depressive episodes actually begin prior to delivery. Thus, these
episodes are referred to collectively as peripartum episodes. Women with
peripartum major depressive episodes often have severe anxiety and even
panic attacks.
Risk Factors for development of bipolar disorder - ✔✔✔ correct answer >
more common in high-income than in low-income countries Separated,
divorced, or widowed individuals have higher rates of bipolar I disorder.
A family history of bipolar disorder is one of the strongest and most
consistent risk factors for bipolar disorders.
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, individual has a manic episode with psychotic features, subsequent
manic episodes are more likely to include psychotic features.
common differential diagnosis for bipolar disorder - ✔✔✔ correct answer >
major depressive disorder, other bipolar disorders, GAD, Panic disorder,
PTSD, bipolar, substance/medication induced bipolar disorder,
schizoaffective disorder, adhd, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder,
personality disorders
differentiate depressive episodes in bipolar 1 disorder vs bipolar
II disorder - ✔✔✔ correct answer > bipolar 1 accompanied by manic episodes
bipolar II no manic just hypomanic
depressive episodes in bipolar II disorder - ✔✔✔ correct answer > bipolar II
disorder have greater chronicity of illness and spend,on average, more
time in the depressive phase of their illnes
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