Mood Disorders - Diagnosis
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

[Mood disorders in patients with chronic kidney disease. Diagnosis, screening and treatment of depression]

11 Sep 2009 Depression is a common co-morbid condition in patients suffering from a variety of chronic medical conditions. In spite of this, mental health of patients with chronic kidney disease is understudied. Accurate estimation of the prevalence of ... Read more...

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...

Clinical assessment of affective instability: comparing EMA indices, questionnaire reports, and retrospective recall.

30 Aug 2009 Traditional self-report measures of psychopathology may be influenced by a variety of recall biases. Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) reduces these biases by assessing individuals' experiences as they occur in their natural environments. This ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mood Disorders - Diagnosis'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Postpartum mood disorders: genetic progress and treatment paradigms. 30 Oct 2009
• [Mood disorders in patients with chronic kidney disease. Diagnosis, screening and treatment of depression] 11 Sep 2009
• Introducing the expert electroconvulsive therapy physician for 2009: one person's reflection. 30 Aug 2009
• Mood episodes and mood disorders: patterns of incidence and conversion in the first three decades of life. 30 Aug 2009
• Clinical assessment of affective instability: comparing EMA indices, questionnaire reports, and retrospective recall. 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
• Prevalence of mood, anxiety, and substance-abuse disorders for older Americans in the national comorbidity survey-replication. 30 Aug 2009
• Impact of multifamily psychoeducational psychotherapy in treating children aged 8 to 12 years with mood disorders. 30 Aug 2009
• Early childhood depression. 30 Aug 2009
• Is there a "mosquito net" for anxiety and mood disorders? 30 Jul 2009
• The impact and implications of neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus in adolescents. 29 Jun 2009
• Comorbidity in Australia: findings of the 2007 National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing. 29 Jun 2009
• Apathy: a common psychiatric syndrome in the elderly. 29 Jun 2009
• Alternatives to admission for children and adolescents: providing intensive mental healthcare services at home and in communities: what works? 29 Jun 2009
• Diagnosis of schizophrenia in latino populations: a comparison of direct interview and consensus based multi-source methods. 29 Jun 2009
• Psychiatric and psychological outcomes of Japanese living donors following liver transplantation. 13 Jun 2009
• Why we recommend analytic treatment for some patients and not for others. 13 Jun 2009
• The syndromal validity and nosological position of apathy in Parkinson's disease. 13 Jun 2009
• Psychiatric and psychosocial problems in adults with normal-intelligence autism spectrum disorders. 8 Jun 2009
• Prevalence of fibromyalgia in a low socioeconomic status population. 6 Jun 2009

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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