Kaplan & Sadock Chapter 8 Major depression questions with correct answers

sometimes called affective disorders Answer disorders of Mood p.347 unipolar mania" and "pure mania" are sometimes used for patients who are Answer bipolar but who do not have depressive episodes. p.347 major depressive episodes are said to have either Answer major depressive disorder or unipolar depression p.347 Three additional categories of mood disorders are Answer hypomania, cyclothymia, and dysthymia p.347 Cyclothymia and dysthymia as disorders that represent Answer LESS severe forms of bipolar disorder and major depression, respectively. p.347 hypomania is a less severe, Answer shorter lasting form of mania dysthymia is a less severe, Answer longer lasting form of depession In 1854, Jules Falret described a condition called Answer FOLIE CIRCULAIRE, in which patients experience alternating moods of depression and mania. p.347 IN 1882 German psychiatrist Karl Kahlbaum used the term Answer cyclothymia to described mania and depression