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Cause of Seasonal Affective Disorder
What Cause Seasonal Effective Disorder? Explanations of SAD are almost uniquely biological. Genetic factors There is now increasing evidence of genetic processes in the aetiology of SAD. In one population study, Madden et al. examined the prevalence of SAD in MZ and DZ twins, concluding that about 29 per cent of the variance in the […]
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Seasonal affective disorder symptoms (Sad Symptoms)
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) was recognized as a distinct disorder by Rosenthal and colleagues only in the mid-1980s . DSM-IV-TR considers it to have the following symptoms and characteristics: a regular temporal relationship between the onset of an episode of depression and a particular time of year full remissions occur at regular times of the […]
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Is Suicide a Mental Disorder
Is Suicide a Mental Disorder? Only about half of those who commit suicide have an identifi ed mental health problem, the most common being depression, substance-related disorders and schizophrenia. About 15 per cent of people with each disorder kill themselves (Meltzer 1998). Surprisingly, perhaps, suicide is more strongly associated with moderate than severe depression, as […]
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Treatment for Major Depressive Disorder
Biological interventions Antidepressants There are now three types of antidepressant in general use that impact on serotonin levels: tricylics, SSRIs and SNRIs. A third group of antidepressants, known as monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) proved reasonably effective, achieving clinically signifi cant changes in about 50 per cent of the people prescribed them. However, the dangers associated […]
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Signs and Symptoms of Major Depressive Disorder
DSM-IV-TR defines a major depressive disorder as the presence of at least five of the following Signs and Symptoms for at least two weeks: depressed mood markedly diminished interest or pleasure in almost all activities significant weight loss or gain, or increase in or loss of appetite physical agitation fatigue or loss of energy feelings […]
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Treatment Strategies for OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder)
Behavioural and cognitive behavioural approaches Behavioural treatment of OCD typically involves exposure and response prevention. In this, the individual is exposed to their feared stimulus, frequently in a graded manner, and then helped to prevent avoidance through their use of escape rituals: ‘contaminating’ hands and not washing them, and so on. This is thought to […]
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Bipolar mood disorder (manic depression)
Bipolar mood disorder affects 1–3 per cent of the population, and the first presentation of this illness for women is not uncommon when the first childis born. Although only 1–2 in1000 women will develop this condition postnatally,it causes major disruption when it does appear. An illness episode ofthis type following childbirth is known as ‘puerperal […]
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Schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder
Schizophrenia develops in one per cent of all populations, regardless of cultural or socio-economic status. It is a severe illness which affects many important aspects of functioning, and tends to be chronic. Successful parenting is likely to be compromised from pre-conception onwards for women (and men) with schizophrenia. For many years, it was widely known […]
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What is Obsessive–compulsive disorder
Obsessions are intrusive thoughts, images or urges that are recognised by the individual to be irrational and unwanted and are usually resisted (the resistance diminishes with chronicity). They may be fears that the person might harm someone or might inadvertently contaminate or infect someone. Although everyone experiences intrusions, the person with OCD tends to assume […]
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Biological Approaches To Defining Disorder
Early biologically-based accounts of disease claimed that a condition is a disease ifand only if it is statistically infrequent and reduces an organism’s life-expectancy orfertility. Some proponents of such an account have thought that it could work formental disorders as well as physical disorders. In a 1975 paper Robert Kendell usessuch a biologically-based account to […]
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