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Theme 1: Mood and affect regulation, including stress

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Part 4 / Medical Foundation 4 / Brain and Behaviour
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Curriculum Block
Part 4 Medical Foundation 4 Brain and Behaviour
Curriculum Week
Part 4
Discipline
Psychiatry
MCC Presentations
Depressed Mood Mania / Hypomania Anxiety
McMaster Program Competencies
1.1 Gather essential and accurate information about patients and their health through history-taking, physical examination, and the use of laboratory data, imaging, and other tests. 2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations. 2.3 Apply principles of clinical sciences to diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making, clinical problem-solving, and other aspects of evidence-based healthcare
MeSH
Mood Disorders [F03.600] Stress [C23.550.848]

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Child Objectives
  • Describe the physiological sequelae of sustained stress.
  • Explain The relationship between stress and depression.
  • Describe common symptoms of depression, bipolar disorder and mixed states.
  • List biological features of depression.
  • Describe the cognitive distortions seen in depression.
  • Recognize common co-morbid illnesses seen in depression.
  • Compare and contrast unipolar versus bipolar depression.
  • Describe the different categories of drugs used to treat depression, their efficacy and adverse effects.
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