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Abnormal psychology

Key emotions in mood disorders depression and mania Depression a love, sad state in which life seems dark and its challenges overwhelming. Mania a state of breathless euphoria, or at least frenzied energy in which people may have the exaggerated believe that the world is theirs for the taking. Unipolar Depression Depression without a history of mania Bipolar disorder a disorder marked by alternating or intermixed periods of mania and depression Five different subtypes of Depression symptoms Emotional, motivational, behavioral, cognitive, and physical. Emotional Symptoms Depression

Johns Hopkins University

Even before the discovery of the patterns and syndromes of autism, there have been people already affected by this disorder and were first thought to be mentally retarded or insane. Then Dr. Leo Kanner of Johns Hopkins University, basing his discovery from the children he observed between 1938 and 1943, studied and recorded the patterns of the syndrome and incorporated the term autism.