Mood disorders
Chapter 6
Mood disorders
2 topics
- 14Recurrent depressive disorder: epidemiology, etiological theories, clinical features, course, and treatmentDepression that comes back; the depressive episode and its grades, how recurrent depression differs from bipolar disorder and dysthymia, the theories of its cause, stepped care, treatment-resistant depression, how long to treat, and suicide risk.
- 15Bipolar affective disorder: epidemiology, etiology, clinical features, course, and treatmentA recurrent mood disorder of mania or hypomania and depression; the episodes and how ICD-10, ICD-11 and DSM-5-TR classify them, bipolar I and II, cyclothymia and rapid cycling, the causes, the treatment of mania and bipolar depression, long-term lithium and the limits on valproate, and the risk of suicide.