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Depression Related Terms

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  • Major Depressive Disorder

  • Mood disorder in which only symptoms of depression occur.

  • Maladaptive Behavior

  • Behavior that works against the individual or the group.

  • Maladjustment

  • Relative inability or failure of the organism to adapt to the environment.

  • Mania

  • An emotional/psychological state characterized by unrealistic feelings of excitement, invincibility, power, energy, intelligence, and euphoria.

  • MCS

  • Multiple chemical sensitivity.

  • Medical Model

  • The perspective that psychiatric/psychological problems are the result of disordered or abnormal physiology or structure, rather than the result of learning or thinking.

  • Medication

  • A chemical substance that has a medical affect on the body. There are a wide variety of classes of medications used to treat anxiety disorders; including benzodiazepines, MAOIs, SRIs, SARIS, SSRIs, SNRIs, and TCAs.

  • Medicine

  • An academic discipline devoted to the understanding and treatment of disorders of the human body.

  • Melancholic Subtype

  • Subtype of depression that involves a loss of pleasure (anhedonia), sleep problems, changes in eating appetite, motor agitation or retardation, and feelings of guilt and worthlessness.

  • Melatonin

  • A hormone produced by the pineal gland that is derived from serotonin and involved in a number of functions including biological circadian rhythms and sleep.

  • Migraine

  • An intensely painful recurring headache that often involves only one side of the head and is often accompanied by nausea and visual disturbance.

  • Mitral Valve Prolapse (MVP)

  • A relatively benign cardiac condition involving a heart valve abnormality. MVP has been associated with autonomic nervous system dysfunction and some anxiety disorders in which case it is referred to as Mitral Valve Prolapse Syndrome.

  • Model

  • An analogy that helps a scientist understand how something works.

  • Modeling

  • A powerful form of learning in which ppeople learn by watching someone else (the model) do something.

  • Monoamines

  • A class of hormones/neurotransmitters that includes the catecholamines (dopamine, epinephrine and norepinephrine) and the indoleamines (serotonin and melatonin).

  • Mood Disorders

  • Problems characterized by disturbances of mood that are are intense enough to cause suffering and maladaptive behavior.

  • MVP

  • Mitral valve prolapse.


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