Lecture 8

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What types of depression are there?

Unipolar, Bipolar, Dysthymia, Minor and seasonal affective

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What does Abrahamson say are the three key attributional processes related to depression?

Internal/external, stable/unstable, and global/specific. Negative events are resultant from internal cause, are stable in occurrence and happen globally in their life

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What three things does Beck say depressed individuals respond to events with?

Absolutist thinking, over generalisation and personalisation

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What are the crtieria for minor depression?

Only 2 symptoms needed. 29% prevalence in study.

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What is dysthymia?

Depressive mood constantly for over 2 years, fewer depressive symptoms than unipolar

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What types of antidepressants are there?

Tricyclics, SSRIs, SNRIs and MAOI's

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What other treatments are there for depression?

Electroconvulsive therapy and psychological therapy (CBT)

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Where is serotonin found and what is its precursor and enzyme?

Dorsal raphe, tryptophan and tryptophan hydroxylase

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How to MAOI's work?

Destroys excess monoamines in the terminal buttons, inhibits activity of MAO which increases release of DA, NA, 5HT

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WHat do trycyclics affect?

5HT and NA

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What is the monoamine hypothesis of depression?

Insufficient acitivty of monoaminergic neurons, especially serotonin and NA

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What is odd about the therapeutic action of antidepressants?

They tend to be slow (several days and weeks)

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What does electroconvulsive therapy achieve?

Increases sensitivity of postsynaptic neurons to serotonin in hippocampus and increase GABA

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