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mood disorder
Sign in to saveAlso known as episodic mood disorder, affective psychosis, affective disorder, mood [affective] disorders, mood disorders
any of various disorders characterised primarily by disturbance in an individual's mood
Key facts
- Other names
- mental disorder
- Specialty
- Neuro psychiatry
- Types
- Bipolar disorder , cyclothymia , disruptive mood dysregulation disorder , dysthymia , major depressive disorder , premenstrual dysphoric disorder , seasonal affective disorder
- Medication
- Antidepressants, mood stabilizers, antipsychotics
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Research
228,530 papers- Review of the clinical approach to the treatment of disruptive mood dysregulation disorder.International review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England) · 2020
- Chronobiological theories of mood disorder.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2018
- Schizoaffective Disorder in the DSM-5.Schizophrenia research · 2013
- The experience of mood disorder and substance use: An integrative review.Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing · 2023
- Age, period, and cohort trends in mood disorder indicators and suicide-related outcomes in a nationally representative dataset, 2005-2017.Journal of abnormal psychology · 2019
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Encyclopedic overview
A mood disorder, also known as an affective disorder, is any of a group of conditions of mental and behavioral disorder where the main underlying characteristic is a disturbance in the person's mood. The classification is in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and International Classification of Diseases (ICD).
Mood disorders fall into seven groups, including: 1. abnormally elevated mood, such as mania or hypomania; 2. depressed mood, of which the best-known and most researched is major depressive disorder (MDD) (alternatively known as clinical depression, unipolar depression, or major depression); and 3. moods which cycle between mania and depression, known as bipolar disorder (BD) (formerly known as manic depression). 4. There are several subtypes of depressive disorders or psychiatric syndromes featuring less severe symptoms such as dysthymic disorder (similar to MDD, but longer lasting and more persistent, though often milder) and cyclothymic disorder (similar to but milder than BD).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “mood disorder” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.