Psychotherapy for Mood Disorders — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: Rapid cycling bipolar disorder is characterised by _____ or more mood disturbances in a year with each episode either having a partial or full remission for at least 2 months or a switch to the opposite polarity.

Answer: 4

Flashcard 2: Recurrent depression with cyclical pattern can be treated with _____ or imipramine

Answer: lithium

Flashcard 3: _____ disorder is a milder form of bipolar disorder lasting at least 2 years (duration), fluctuating between mild depressive and hypomanic symptoms

Answer: Cyclothymic

Flashcard 4: _____ disorder is characterized by recurrent episodes of major depression, mania, or hypomania with seasonal onset

Answer: Seasonal affective

Flashcard 5: _____ is a severe depressive state, associated with the delusions of persecution and nihilism.

Answer: Involutional melancholia

Flashcard 6: What is the treatment of choice for depression with suicidality and refractory depression?_____

Answer: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

Flashcard 7: _____ disorder episodes are characterized by depressed mood or anhedonia and at least four other "SIG E CAPS" symptoms lasting > 2 weeks (duration)

Answer: Major depressive

Flashcard 8: childhood bipolar disorder are now called as _____

Answer: disruptive mood dysregulation disorders

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Flashcard 9: Patients with major depressive episode with psychotic features have mood-congruent _____ and hallucinations

Answer: delusions