Previous research has demonstrated that neuroplasticity is disrupted in mood disorders as well as in animal models of stress. Pittenger and Duman (2008) hypothesize that chronic stress, which typically precipitates or exacerbates depression, disrupts neuroplasticity, where antidepressant treatment can produce the opposite effect and enhance neuroplasticity. There are different levels of neuroplasticity such as structural plasticity, functional synaptic plasticity, as well as the molecular and cellular
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of what is happening. Clara is adopted so I would ask Mr. and Mrs. Lawson if they have any medical background on Clara’s biological parents. How long Clara has been with them? DSM-IV AXIS Axis I: Major depressive disorder inconsolable Axis I: Personality disorder tempers tantrums Axis III: Medical or Neurological condition Unknown Axis IV: Physiological Stressor no longer wants to go to school Axis V: Global Assessment of Function (GAF) Scale Diagnosis
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Major depression (MD) is a heterogeneous group of neuropsychiatric disease associated with significant morbidity, mortality and disability [1,2].. Recently, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V), characterized MD by these symptoms depressed mood, diminished interest or pleasure, significant increase or decrease in weight or appetite, insomnia or hypersomnia, pscychomotor agitation or retardation, fatigue, feeling of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt, inability
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Schizophrenia During the early twentieth century schizophrenia was described as a breakdown of integration among emotion, thought, and action. Schizophrenia only attacks one percent of individuals, and your race, culture, ethnicity, or background has no effect on whether you will develop this disease. Schizophrenia usually begins in adolescence or early adulthood, there are rare cases that it starts after this point. “The symptoms and treatment for schizophrenia are difficult to define.”
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people with mental illness and patients who suffer from severe psychiatric disorders. Clinical psychologist are involved with helping people with abnormal behavior and who may be suffering from psychological distress. Patients are often individualized by psychological, biological and social factors of their case. Clinical psychologist work very close with their patients to help assess and diagnose which psychological disorder they are suffering from. Case Overview As we examine the case of Martha
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Assignment: Clinical Assessment Chaz Hedgspeth Axia College What other information would you like to learn during the interview with the family? What questions would you ask? If I were interviewing the family I would want to know extensive information about the child, including her home life, her life at school, and what types of relationships she has in both environments. Does she interact with the children well at school? Does she get punished for doing bad and rewarded for doing
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Depression and Bipolar Depression are the two types of mood disorders, which are considered genetic disorders and look very similar to each other, thus making it very confusing. Both of these disorders share similar symptoms, such as hopelessness, sadness, sleep problems, anxiety, and pessimism. However, there comes a point where they go in different directions. Medical professional has to be very careful in distinguishing which disorder the patient is suffering from because treatments for them vary
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continue to affect and interfere with the person’s daily life. Unipolar and Bipolar are two types of mood disorders that can affect anyone of us. [People only troubled by depression would be diagnosed with “unipolar disorder” as this emotional disorder only affects one end of the mood continuum. However “bipolar disorder” affects both emotional ends of the mood continuum. People with this disorder will experience periods of both depression and mania] (Weiten & McCainn, 2007, p. 591) Depression has a
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depression disorder are Edgar Allen Poe, Jimi Hendrix, and Theodore Roosevelt. Some of the most famous people who have helped shape our world are Sigmund Freud, Sir Issac Newton, George Washington had faced unipolar depression disorder (Sherma, 2006). Bipolar and Unipolar are both depression disorders however, they are slightly different. Let’s explore the difference, the causes, and the treatments of both bipolar and unipolar depression disorders. People who suffer from bipolar disorder suffer
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the most common mental disorders experienced. If depression is not treated or dealt with correctly, it can keep people from functioning normally and affect every aspect of their life, often leading to social isolation, and in the worst case scenario, can result in suicide. According to the Australia Institute of Health and Welfare (2007), a mental disorder affects one in four young people. Of all age groups, 18-24 year olds have the highest prevalence of mental disorders and the leading cause
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