significant improvements of his condition and thus electroconvulsive therapy began.1‚2 Today‚ electroconvulsive therapy is mainly used for the treatment of severe depressive disorders‚ especially major depressive disorder. 1‚2 According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5‚3 sufferers of major depressive disorder have experienced several symptoms of daily depressed mood‚ low interest and pleasure in activities‚ weight loss or gain‚ sleeping problems‚ slowness and fatigue‚
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happened in one’s life‚ it is considered an appropriate behavior as long as one can overcome it and resume to normal functioning within a considerable period of time. In my paper‚ I will be discussing Depression illness‚ the main causes of this disorder and its treatment; also several factors that linked this syndrome to genetics‚ describing different studies that have lead researchers to important discoveries in the health field. Several of the factors enhancing depression are generally physiological
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(whether children‚ adults or elderly people) and walk of life but symptoms are rather similar. Depressive disorders come in different forms‚ just as do other illnesses such as heart disease. One of the most prevalent forms is dysthymia. (1‚ 1997) Abstract: Dysthymia has recently been diagnosed as its own unique subdivision of depression. What distinguishes dysthymia from Major Depressive Disorders is both the severity and length of the depression condition observed. Recent research suggests that
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large increase in this. This is because people are finally coming to terms and are acknowledging that exercise does have an impact on people’s lives. According to Bartholomew (2005)‚ he did a study on the effects of exercise on people with major depressive disorder‚ results show that there was 30 minutes of moderate exercise on the treadmill was enough to see an increase in a persons well being and psychological improvement. This is something that the Foundations of Exercise Psychology points out how
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Bipolar disorder is a disease that effects one in every five Americans. It is second only to heart disease for loss of workdays in the U.S. Due to popular belief the cause of Bipolar disorder is a chemical imbalance in the brain. This imbalance is due to one neurotransmitter called norepinephrine it is thought to be the cause of depressive symptoms. Norepinephrine is a hormone produced by the adrenal medulla‚ similar in chemical and pharmacological properties to epinephrine (also a hormone
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"Gender differences in depression"‚ and "Why Change the World When You Can have a Prozac Moment?" I found much information to support the stereotype that women get more depressed than men. It seems that for many reasons‚ "gender differences in depressive disorders are genuine." (Piccinelli and Wilkinson 1) "This is due to the fact that depression‚ regardless of what other name it has been called or how it has been described‚ has always been known to afflict women more than men." (Hassibi 1) There
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Postpartum Depression Report Postpartum Depression is a mood disorder that affects 1 in 7 women following the birth of a child (may also occur after miscarriage or still birth). While it is normal for women to experience the “baby blues”- feeling stressed‚ sad‚ lonely and tired after the birth of their child‚ PPD is a much more serious condition. Unlike the baby blues‚ it does not go away on its own and the symptoms can last for months on end and cause serious problems for the mother and her baby
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wanted Chris to pull the trigger but he couldn’t and Emily decided to pull it. The illness is suicide because Emily took her own life. Studies have consistently shown that having depression or bipolar disorder increases your risk for suicide significantly. It’s estimated that people with mood disorders
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are about twice as likely as men to develop depression (Nolen-Hoeksema‚ 1990; Weissman et al.‚ 1996). This is true whether depression is indexed as a diagnosed mental disorder or as subclinical symptoms. Diagnosable depressive disorders are extraordinarily common in women‚ who have a lifetime prevalence for major depressive disorder of 21.3%‚ compared with 12.7% in men (Kessler‚ McGonagle‚ Swartz‚ Blazer‚ & Nelson‚ 1993). Most explanations for the gender difference in depression have focused on individual
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ORGANIZER: IB Psychology – ABNORMAL (Day 2 – Option) Learning Outcomes General framework (applicable to all topics in this option): MAIN INFO: Theories/Topics/People/Studies/Methodology/Notes Text (pgs) |To what extent do biological‚ cognitive | |136-137 | |and sociocultural factors influence |*Behavioral measures (like intelligence and short-term memory)
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