Mood Disorders - Classification
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Mood episodes and mood disorders: patterns of incidence and conversion in the first three decades of life.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVES: Significant questions remain regarding both the incidence patterns of mood episodes in adolescents and young adults from the community and the conversion rate from unipolar to bipolar disorders. We addressed these issues by examining ... Read more...

A proposal for a dimensional classification system based on the shared features of the DSM-IV anxiety and mood disorders: implications for assessment and treatment.

30 Aug 2009 A wealth of evidence attests to the extensive current and lifetime diagnostic comorbidity of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed., DSM-IV) anxiety and mood disorders. Research has shown that the considerable ... Read more...

Development of clinical ontology for mood disorder with combination of psychomedical information.

27 Feb 2009 We have developed a new educational/clinical ontology named the "Haghighi-Koeda Mood Disorder Ontology", which involves both medical and psychological approaches for mood disorders in order to promote the exchange of information between ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mood Disorders - Classification'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Mood episodes and mood disorders: patterns of incidence and conversion in the first three decades of life. 30 Aug 2009
• A proposal for a dimensional classification system based on the shared features of the DSM-IV anxiety and mood disorders: implications for assessment and treatment. 30 Aug 2009
• Development of clinical ontology for mood disorder with combination of psychomedical information. 27 Feb 2009
• The bipolar spectrum: a critical perspective. 30 Dec 2008
• [Assessment of posttraumatic stress disorders] 29 Nov 2008
• Additional evidence for a quantitative hierarchical model of mood and anxiety disorders for DSM-V: the context of personality structure. 30 Oct 2008
• Classifying mood disorders by age-at-onset instead of polarity. 25 Oct 2008
• Classification of mood disorders in DSM-V and DSM-VI. 29 Sep 2008
• Association analysis of nuclear receptor Rev-erb alpha gene (NR1D1) with mood disorders in the Japanese population. 28 Aug 2008
• The circadian basis of mood disorders: recent developments and treatment implications. 24 Jul 2008
• Children's mental health emergencies--part 2: emergency department evaluation and treatment of children with mental health disorders. 29 Jun 2008
• The Mood Assessment Program: a computerised diagnostic tool for deriving management plans for mood disorders. 14 Jun 2008
• [Bipolar and other affective disorders] 30 May 2008
• Validity, sensitivity and specificity of the mentation, behavior and mood subscale of the UPDRS. 30 May 2008
• Identifying blood biomarkers for mood disorders using convergent functional genomics. 24 Feb 2008
• Pediatric bipolar disorder: validity, phenomenology, and recommendations for diagnosis. 30 Jan 2008
• Cognitive complaints, neuropsychological performance and affective disorders in elderly community residents. 30 Dec 2007
• Differentiating psychotic patients from nonpsychotic patients with the MMPI-2 and Rorschach. 30 Dec 2007
• The role of psychotropic drugs in the insidious deconstruction of the Kraepelinian dichotomy. 29 Nov 2007
• Women, anxiety and mood: a review of nomenclature, comorbidity and epidemiology. 30 Oct 2007

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Technical information about 'Mood Disorders'

Definition: Those disorders that have a disturbance in mood as their predominant feature.

Descriptor UI: D019964

Alternative terms: Mood Disorders; Disorder, Mood; Disorders, Mood; Mood Disorder; Affective Disorders; Affective Disorder; Disorder, Affective; Disorders, Affective;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.600;

History Note: 98(81)

Technical Notes: human only; do not confuse with AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS: read MeSH definitions & follow text