Affective neuroscience

People always underestimate the impact on depression on pregnant women. Actually, about one tenth pregnant women suffer from depression. (McDonagh, 2013) This astonishing amount pushes people to study the influence of depression to pregnant women and offspring. I choose a research article and a popular media article about this opinion. Compare two articles, they both confirm people antenatal depression influences mothers and offspring mentally and physically, although there are other points in…

depression more so then men. Depression is broken down into the different depressions to differentiate the issue, the symptoms, and the causes. There are different depressions classified for different moods and symptoms. For example, (SAD) seasonal affective disorder this is a disorder that affects your mood by the exposure to sunlight. Another melancholy disorder, bipolar depression this is when the mental illness mixes with…

Depression; Facts and Help Depression is very often misunderstood as being just sad. When you're depressed, to you it’s like no one understands what you're feeling or going through. Depression is really common but you can’t let it bring you down. It causes a lot of physical and emotional pain. If you think you are depressed here are some symptoms for you (Segal): If you constantly feel sad or angry You don't find anything fun, everything is pointless you You sleeping schedule or ways change…

Task 1 This assignment will talk about what depression is, as well as facts and signs of it. It will also outline the community health service and what they provide, as well as locating any other health services that may be of use if you are suffering from depression. Intro Community attitudes and perceptions have changed through the years. In the early 2000s people’s perceptions of mental illnesses was extremely low with many people not wanting live or be any were near people with a mental…

Depression Depressed is a feeling; it’s a temporary feeling of sadness that can typically be described. Depression, however, is a noun. It is a state of being depressed; being a person who suffers from depression from the age of eight, I know for a fact, this is not a feeling. To me, depression is the days I don’t want to talk to anyone. Depression is the weeks I sleep too much, or too little. Depression is the manacles tied around my wrists. Depression is the ton I carry in my chest every…

The most widely used criteria for diagnosing depressive conditions are found in the American Psychiatric association's fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR). DSM-IV Criteria for MDD: Depressed mood or loss of interest and pleasure in daily activities for weeks. Mood represents a change from the person's baseline. at least 5 of these symptoms nearly every day: 1. Depressed mood most of the day 2. Lack of interest in doing most activities 3.…

Fibromyalgia is one of the most misunderstood and misdiagnosed diseases. It is a common pain disorder that causes widespread pain and tenderness to touch that can be all over the body, or in just one area. The severity of the symptoms vary from person to person and never go away entirely. The weather and time of day can cause flare ups. Affecting mainly women, it is a chronic disease that can affect from children to older adults. Symptoms include but are not limited to, headaches,…

Silent Suffering What is Depression? Depression is a mood disorder that can cause feeling sad and anger and loss of interest in your daily life. Depression in teens is commend between the age of 15- to 24-year-olds. About 20-25 percent of the teens will experience depression before they reach their 20s. Depression will double the teen’s change of suicide by 12 times. 40% of the teens who killed themselves were diagnosed with depression. Teens with depression will have some kind of social…

Mental health disorder can cause differences in behavior especially if a person is not on medication that can help them control their mood swings and changes in their physical ability. As mental illness has different illness such as bipolar, PTSD, depression and more that I will discuss later on. I feel that having a mental illness is not something that is easy to live with and can change a person behavior and destroys relationships because of the mood changes. I want this society to realize…

to help them better their current situation. The same could be said about the person with depression. They could currently be going through a point in their life where they feel hopeless or lonely. The second one I looked at was the Neuroscience/ Biological Perspective and how Psychologists use it to help patients. In chapter one of our textbook, it says "Psychologists who take a biological perspective study how. . . physical events interact with events in the external environment."…