Exam 7: Mood Disorders and Suicide

Andy is currently completing a chemical formula that he knows will cure cancer. Shortly before, he had submitted a book to a publisher and was sure that it would become a bestseller. For several weeks prior to this, he was bedridden, morose, had no energy, and lacked any spontaneity. He never left his bed and had to be cared for by his family. Andy's diagnosis is .

A friend of yours tells you that he thinks he is mildly depressed, but he's not sure. Knowing that you are studying abnormal psychology, he asks if there is any kind of laboratory test that could determine whether or not someone is depressed. You respond correctly with one of the following statements:

The melancholic specifiers for depressive disorders include all of the following EXCEPT

All of the following statements about lithium therapy are true EXCEPT

Discuss the symptoms, causes and treatments for seasonal affective disorder.

Which of the following is perhaps the best-known and widely used SSRI medication?

According to your textbook, researchers have been studying the life histories of American poets to determine if there is a relationship between creativity and .

All of the following are side effects of lithium therapy EXCEPT .

One of the symptoms of a mood disorder is called anhedonia, which means

Although glorifying and romanticizing suicide in the media contributes to copycat suicides, it is more likely that the person copying the suicide is

Research has found that low serotonin levels may be implicated in suicidal behavior because they affect all of the following EXCEPT .

All of the following statements about lithium therapy are true EXCEPT

Which of the following statements about suicide is correct?

Which of the following statements is accurate regarding the relationship between anxiety and depression?

Impulsive suicidal behavior is often a symptom of personality disorder.

Although electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been a controversial issue for decades, it is an effective treatment for depression especially when

One symptom of depression is an increase in sleeping. What other symptoms related to sleep occur in depression?

For individuals who had not been previously depressed, research studies indicate that a marital separation or divorce resulted in

Martin Seligman's theory that people become anxious and depressed because they believe that they have no control over the stress in their lives is called

In research looking at the biological causes of mood disorders, studies have shown that if one of a set of twins has a mood disorder, the probability that the other twin will have a mood disorder is .