Depression

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  • Created on: 23-03-13 14:45
when can noradreanline be linked to depression?
when there is a defficiency
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what are monzygotic twins?
Identical twins and therefore share 100% of genes
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what is learned helplessness?
depression learned from experience
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What 3 things are part of Beck's negative triad of negative schema and cognitive biases?
a pessimistic view of the self, the world and the future
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Strickland et al found conflicting research against the cortisol hypersecretion explanation of depression, what did he find?
No evidence of increased cortisol levels in a group of depressed women
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what does dexamethasone do?
temporarily suppresses cortisol secretion in normal people
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what is schema?
cognitive structure that forms our interpretations of the world
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what acts as the diathesis and stress in the diathesis-stress model in depression?
diathesis; genetic vulnerability, stress; life events
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