PSYCH 110: Mood Disorders - Epidemiology
Medlock Holmes enters the Atlas of Human Mood.
It is an extraordinary observatory.
Suspended at its centre is an enormous illuminated globe. Across every continent, thousands of small lights pulse between blue and gold.
Blue represents depression.
Gold represents mania and hypomania.
But the lights are not distributed randomly.
Holmes notices patterns.
They cluster differently according to sex.
Age.
Social circumstances.
Relationships.
Latitude.
Season.
Comorbidity.
And access to treatment.
This is the domain of epidemiology.
Its task is not simply to ask:
Who develops a mood disorder?
It…
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