This an analysis and reflection of an ethical article on the general subject of ethical decision-making. I was instructed to choose an article that I though had something to do with the situation I was in. I have chosen an article that studies aging people that show signs of depression and their ability to make rational, reward based decisions over a period of time when compared to non depressed individuals. The reason I chose this article is because since this “event” I have been seeing a therapist and have since learned that I absolutely suffer from depression. I am still seeing this doctor and plan to continue with some kind of therapy for a while. I was always afraid to seek help because I didn’t want to officially know that I was broken.
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I put an extreme amount of pressure myself and sometimes I will do anything to relieve it. I am a very smart conscious thinking person most of the time but when I spiral down it is very hard for me to think about the consequences of my actions all the way through. I know they are there but I act anyway thinking that I will just deal with the like I deal with everything else I suppose.
So I chose an article that I thought may help me get a better understanding on why I do this, or at least give me some sort of idea on why other people do it. After my analysis on the article I will explain how I think it applies to my current situation and me. The article I have chosen to write an analysis of is “Reward related decision-making in older adults: relationship to clinical depression”. It was found in the International Journal Of Geriatric Study, and was written in December of 2013 and published in 2014. It was written by Amanda McGovern, George Alexopoulos, Genivive Yuen, Sarah Suziko Morimoto, and Faith Gunning-Dixon. They collaborated on it at the Dept. of Psychiatry at the Institute of Geriatric Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College in White Plains New …show more content…
They measure the level of apathy in the subjects using the Apathy Evaluation Scale or AES, which was developed by Roger Marin, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA. Marin created the test to measure apathy resulting from brain related pathology (Glenn). He said there were three domains to apathy: deficits in goal-directed behavior, a decrement in goal related thought content and n emotional indifference with a flat affect.
These three domains were all present in the subjects in the study that supported the author’s hypothesis. Apathy affects one -third of non-demented, depressed adults and is more common in late-life depression. They took the sixty subjects with depression and 36 healthy subjects both groups under the age of sixty and put the through a series of tests. The depressed group met the official criteria needed to be considered depressed which is the DSM-IV-TR and research diagnostic criteria. They also had a greater than 18 on the HDRS out of
I put an extreme amount of pressure myself and sometimes I will do anything to relieve it. I am a very smart conscious thinking person most of the time but when I spiral down it is very hard for me to think about the consequences of my actions all the way through. I know they are there but I act anyway thinking that I will just deal with the like I deal with everything else I suppose.
So I chose an article that I thought may help me get a better understanding on why I do this, or at least give me some sort of idea on why other people do it. After my analysis on the article I will explain how I think it applies to my current situation and me. The article I have chosen to write an analysis of is “Reward related decision-making in older adults: relationship to clinical depression”. It was found in the International Journal Of Geriatric Study, and was written in December of 2013 and published in 2014. It was written by Amanda McGovern, George Alexopoulos, Genivive Yuen, Sarah Suziko Morimoto, and Faith Gunning-Dixon. They collaborated on it at the Dept. of Psychiatry at the Institute of Geriatric Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College in White Plains New …show more content…
They measure the level of apathy in the subjects using the Apathy Evaluation Scale or AES, which was developed by Roger Marin, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA. Marin created the test to measure apathy resulting from brain related pathology (Glenn). He said there were three domains to apathy: deficits in goal-directed behavior, a decrement in goal related thought content and n emotional indifference with a flat affect.
These three domains were all present in the subjects in the study that supported the author’s hypothesis. Apathy affects one -third of non-demented, depressed adults and is more common in late-life depression. They took the sixty subjects with depression and 36 healthy subjects both groups under the age of sixty and put the through a series of tests. The depressed group met the official criteria needed to be considered depressed which is the DSM-IV-TR and research diagnostic criteria. They also had a greater than 18 on the HDRS out of