Bipolar Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
Mood Disorders Vocabulary
Mood Disorder Medications
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An emotional state during which an individual may experience both overly joyful, high-energy periods as well as feelings of hopelessness and suicidal ideation.
What is mixed state?
100
This is the leading cause of disability in the United States. In 2008, 6.4 percent of persons ages 18 or older experienced this.
What is Major Depression?
100
A mood alteration that is expressed by feelings of excitement, increased self-esteem, hyperactivity, accelerated thinking and speaking and agitation.
What is Mania?
100
This drug has minimal adverse effects on the cardiovascular system. It is indicated for depression, but commonly used as a non-addictive drug to treat insomnia.
What is Trazodone?
200
This area of the brain, responsible for executive function, tends to be smaller and less functional in adults diagnosed with Bipolar disease.
What is pre-frontal cortex?
200
This type of depression occurs in response to other physiological disorders.
What is Secondary Depression?
200
A severe form of a major depressive episode with exaggerated symptoms. A person will virtually lose interest and pleasure in all activities.
What is Melancholia?
200
It is recommend to avoid food and drinks high in tyramine while taking MAOIs to avoid this medical emergency.
What is Severe Hypertensive Crisis?
300
According to the National Institutes for Health, greater than 50% of all people diagnosed with bipolar disorder are diagnosed by this age.
What is 25 years old?
300
The essential feature of this disorder is a chronically depressed mood for most of the day, more days than not, for at least 2 years.
What is Dysthymic Disorder?
300
An extreme slowdown in physical movements. Posture slumps, digestion becomes sluggish, speech is slowed (common in severe depression).
What is Psychomotor Retardation?
300
Now the top-prescribed of all anti-depressants, this drug was the first in its class to be developed. Initially indicated for treatment of depression, indications have expanded to include bulimia, OCD, panic disorder, and premenstrual dysphoric disorder. (Please name the medication and its class.)
What is Fluoxetine (Prozac)? (Class: SSRI)
400
Affecting women more than men, this form of bipolar disorder is characterized by 4 or more four or more episodes of major depression, mania, hypomania, or mixed states, all within a year.
What is Rapid-Cycling Bipolar Disorder?
400
Deficiencies in the B vitamins, calcium, magnesium, manganese, vitamin E, and linolenic acid have been indicated in the etiology of this depressive disorder.
What is Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder?
400
This form of mania is characterized by severe clouding of consciousness and represents intensification of the severity of mania.
What is Delirious Mania?
400
This category of antidepressants is rarely used to treat depression, but rather to treat neuropathic pain and insomnia.
What are tricyclic antidepressants: Amitriptyline (Elavil), Doxepin (Sinequan), Imipramine (Tofranil)?
500
A milder form of bipolar disorder, which is characterized by hypomania and mild depression lasting at least two years but not otherwise meeting the diagnostic requirements for Bipolar I, II or NOS.
What is Cyclothymic Disorder or Cyclothymia?
500
He proposed a theory suggesting that the primary disturbance in depression is cognitive rather than affective. The underlying cause of the depressive affect is seen as cognitive distortions that result in negative, defeated attitudes.
Who is Beck?
500
Symptoms at this level of the depression continuum are not necessarily dysfunctional and include; sadness, dejection, some crying, feeling tired and listless.
What is Transient Depression
500
By keeping a patient’s serum sodium level between normal range of 135-145 mEq/L this helps maintain therapeutic levels of this mood stabilizing drug also known to treat acute mania.
What is Lithium?
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