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What is an affective disorder?
A mood disorder.
For minor depression how many symptoms?
2-5 present for same 2-week period and must include reduced interest or depressed mood.
For major depression how many symptoms?
More than five present during same two week period. must include reduced interest or depressed mood.
Evidence for hormonal changes in depression?
Enlarged piuitary/adrenal.
What is the technical name for environmental depression?
Reactive depression
Technical name for inherited susceptibility to depression
Endogenous depression
Behavioral model for learned helplessness
Porsolt forced swim test.
Major theory widely accepted to explain biochemical cause of depression.
biogenic amine hypothesis or monoamine theory of depression.
Problems with monoamine theory
2 week delay in effect.
amphetamine and cocaine not anti-depressants.
Some anti-depressants dont alter monoamines.
Receptors important in anti-depressant pathways?
α2 receptors, 5HT1A receptors, TrkB (from BDNF) receptors.