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 Manic Depression Quiz

Welcome to the QuizMoz Manic Depression Quiz. QuizMoz offers one of the Internet's largest collection of quizzes for you to tease your brain and pit your wits against the experienced QuizMoz quiz masters. Go ahead and find out what you know about yourself and the world around you. Best of luck!!

 Manic Depression Quiz Facts
 Average Score for this quiz: 33%
 No of times this quiz has been taken: 14
 No of people passing this quiz: 7
 No of people failing this quiz: 7
 Maximum score for this quiz: 75%

Coverage : The Manic Depression Quiz is designed to determine how much you know about this devastating mental health condition that affects millions world-wide.

1. Mania is defined as:
a.A medical condition characterized by oscillations between severely depressed and severely elevated moods
b.A medical condition characterized by severely depressed mood
c.A medical condition characterized by severely elevated mood
d.A medical condition characterized by antisocial behavior and sporadic psychotic breaks
 
2. Manic depression is an older term used to describe this disorder; the current term favored by the medical community is:
a.Akathitic Depression
b.Bipolar I Disorder
c.Bipolar II Disorder
d.Hypomania
 
3. _____ remains the standard treatment for manic depression.
a.Tegretal
b.Lamictal
c.Epilum
d.Lithium
 
4. Carbamasepine and sodium valporate are examples of _____, which can also be used as mood stabilizers.
a.Antipsychotics
b.Antidepressants
c.Anticonvulsants
d.Sedatives
 
5. Manic depression and hypomania are synonyms.
a.True
b.False
 
6. In ancient _____, mania was viewed as arising from an excess of yellow bile, or a mixture of black and yellow bile.
a.Persia
b.Rome
c.Egypt
d.Greece
 
7. In 1948, _____ discovered that Lithium Carbonate could be used as a successful treatment of manic depressive psychosis.
a.Dr. Hagop Akiskal
b.Dr. Emil Kraepelin
c.Dr. John Cade
d.Dr. Jean-Pierre Falret Jean-Pierre Falret
 
8. In a 2003 study, Hagop Akiskal M.D. and Lew Judd M.D. determined that _____ of the entire population can be thought of as having a bipolar spectrum disorder.
a.2.5%
b.5.1%
c.6.4%
d.8.2%
 
9. Manic depression  involves actual physiological problems in the brain structure and function.
a.True
b.False
 
10. If a child with manic depression is misdiagnosed and treated with _____, the child may become violent, suicidal, homicidal or otherwise severely destabilized.
a.Antipsychotics
b.Antidepressants
c.Anticonvulsives
d.Sedatives
 
11. Recent studies have indicated that at least 50% of adult sufferers of manic depression report manifestation of symptoms before the age of _____.
a.8
b.12
c.17
d.25
 
12. People with manic depression are about twice as likely to commit suicide as those suffering from major depression.
a.True
b.False
 
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