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Psychiatry
Mood d/o (T Pierce)
5
Medical
Professional
07/09/2011

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Term
manic episode
Definition
  • for at least one week, you have at least three of the following
    • distractibility
    • insomnia
    • grandiosity
    • flight of ideas
    • activity/agitation (increase in goal directed activity)
    • speech (pressured- rapid and uninterruptible)
    • excessive involvement in pleasurable activities
    • thoughtlessness (hypersexuality, spending sprees)
Term
sleep problems associated with MDD
Definition
  • stages three and four decrease
  • multiple awakenings
  • hypersomnia
  • initial and terminal insomnia (hard to fall asleep and early morning awakening)
  • REM shifted to earlier in night
Term
atypical depression
Definition
  • hypersomina
  • hyperphagia
  • reactive mood
  • leaden paralysis
  • hypersensitivity to interpersonal rejection
Term
melancholic depression
Definition
  • majority of patients with MDD
  • anhedonia
  • early morning awakenings
  • psychomotor disturbances
  • excessive guilt
  • anorexia
Term
dysthymic disorder
Definition
  • depressed mood for the marotity of the time most days for at least 2 years
  • at least two of the DSM critera for MDD
    • 2 D's: 2 years of depression, 2 listed criteria, never asymptomatic for more than 2 months
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