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... abnormalities are common in depres- sion. Many of the symptoms associated with mood disorders-changes in appetite, sleep patterns, and sex drive-may be related to these hormonal changes. One of the most consistent findings in this ...
... abnormalities are common in depres- sion. Many of the symptoms associated with mood disorders-changes in appetite, sleep patterns, and sex drive-may be related to these hormonal changes. One of the most consistent findings in this ...
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... abnormality in serotonin metabolism or activity . Other studies implicate a genetic component in OCD . Several lines of ... abnormal interaction of these two regions of the brain ( figure 1-6 ) . According to this hypothesis , the basal ...
... abnormality in serotonin metabolism or activity . Other studies implicate a genetic component in OCD . Several lines of ... abnormal interaction of these two regions of the brain ( figure 1-6 ) . According to this hypothesis , the basal ...
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... abnormality severe enough to warrant public intervention . While it might thwart public policy , the defini- tional dilemma has not impeded research into and treatment of specific mental disorders . As psychiatrist- researcher Nancy ...
... abnormality severe enough to warrant public intervention . While it might thwart public policy , the defini- tional dilemma has not impeded research into and treatment of specific mental disorders . As psychiatrist- researcher Nancy ...
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... abnormal involuntary movements of the face , tongue , mouth , fingers , upper and lower limbs , and occasionally the entire body . It occurs in at least a mild form in 25 to 40 percent of patients on antipsychotic agents and may be ...
... abnormal involuntary movements of the face , tongue , mouth , fingers , upper and lower limbs , and occasionally the entire body . It occurs in at least a mild form in 25 to 40 percent of patients on antipsychotic agents and may be ...
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... abnormal' mood . . . after a century there is still no agreement about the most satisfactory classification (40). Family histories and longitudinal studies provide evidence that depression may constitute a contin- uum from the blues to ...
... abnormal' mood . . . after a century there is still no agreement about the most satisfactory classification (40). Family histories and longitudinal studies provide evidence that depression may constitute a contin- uum from the blues to ...
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Page 55 - Five (or more) of the following symptoms have been present during the same 2-week period and represent a change from previous functioning; at least one of the symptoms is either (1 ) depressed mood or (2) loss of interest or pleasure.
Page 64 - It cannot be established that an organic factor initiated and maintained the disturbance...
Page 55 - In children and adolescents, can be irritable mood. 2) markedly diminished interest or pleasure in all, or almost all, activities most of the day, nearly every day...
Page 55 - Insomnia or hypersomnia nearly every day 5 Psychomotor agitation or retardation nearly every day (observable by others, not merely subjective feelings of restlessness or being slowed down) 6 Fatigue or loss of energy nearly every day 7 Feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt (which may be delusional) nearly every day (not merely self-reproach or guilt about being sick...
Page 55 - The mood disturbance is sufficiently severe to cause marked impairment in occupational functioning or in usual social activities or relationships with others, or to necessitate hospitalization to prevent harm to self or others, or there are psychotic features.
Page 9 - It may be more accurate to say that despair, owing to some evil trick played upon the sick brain by the inhabiting psyche, comes to resemble the diabolical discomfort of being imprisoned in a fiercely overheated room. And because no breeze stirs this caldron, because there is no escape from this smothering confinement, it is entirely natural that the victim begins to think ceaselessly of oblivion.
Page 62 - B. At some point during the course of the disorder, the person has recognized that the obsessions or compulsions are excessive or unreasonable.
Page 54 - It was not really alarming at first, since the change was subtle, but I did notice that my surroundings took on a different tone at certain times: the shadows of nightfall seemed more somber, my mornings were less buoyant, walks in the woods became less zestful...
Page 55 - During the period of mood disturbance, three (or more) of the following symptoms have persisted (four if the mood is only irritable) and have been present to a significant degree: 1 . Inflated self-esteem or grandiosity 2.
Page 55 - A. At least five of the following symptoms have been present during the same two-week period and represent a change from previous functioning; at least one of the symptoms is either: 1) depressed mood, or 2) loss of interest or pleasure.