Chapter 9: Mood Disorders
After reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to: - Distinguish between unipolar and bipolar depression, and know the diagnostic criteria for the disorders that fall under each category: Major depression (and its associated subtypes), dysthymic disorder, double depression, Bipolar I disorder, Bipolar II disorder, cyclothymic disorder, and rapid cycling bipolar disorder.
- Explain how depression affects the whole person, i.e., cognitively, emotionally, behaviorally, and physiologically.
- Discuss how rates of unipolar depression vary as a function of age, gender, and culture, as well as the proposed explanations for these differences.
- Summarize the evidence for the idea that bipolar disorder is linked to creativity.
- Summarize the evidence for and against the idea that genetics partially determine who will develop a mood disorder.
- Discuss the monoamine theory of depression.
- Discuss the neuroendocrine and neurophysiological abnormalities in depression.
- Discuss drugs used to treat bipolar disorder.
- Discuss how tricyclic antidepressants, monoamine oxidase inhibitors, and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors work, their side effects, and their effectiveness for treating depression.
- Discuss the type of patient most likely to receive electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), what the therapy entails, and how it might work.
- Explain how light therapy for seasonal affective disorder might work.
- Discuss the behavioral, psychodynamic, learned helplessness, reformulated learned helplessness, cognitive, and interpersonal theories of depression.
- Describe interpersonal therapy for depression.
- Discuss research on the relationship between depression and hormone levels in women.
- Discuss the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, and drug therapies for the treatment of depression.
- Discuss how depression may be successfully prevented.
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