Mood Disorders - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

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...

A preliminary study of lamotrigine in the treatment of affective instability in borderline personality disorder.

30 Aug 2009 The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of lamotrigine in reducing affective instability in borderline personality disorder (BPD). We conducted a 12-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 28 patients who met Revised ... Read more...

Association of the serotonin transporter gene promoter region (5-HTTLPR) polymorphism with biased attention for emotional stimuli.

30 Jul 2009 A deletion polymorphism in the serotonin transporter-linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR) has been associated with vulnerability to affective disorders, yet the mechanism by which this gene confers vulnerability remains unclear. Two studies examined ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mood Disorders - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Use of complementary and alternative medicine among individuals with serious mood disorders receiving electroconvulsive therapy. 30 Aug 2009
• Clinical assessment of affective instability: comparing EMA indices, questionnaire reports, and retrospective recall. 30 Aug 2009
• A preliminary study of lamotrigine in the treatment of affective instability in borderline personality disorder. 30 Aug 2009
• Association of the serotonin transporter gene promoter region (5-HTTLPR) polymorphism with biased attention for emotional stimuli. 30 Jul 2009
• Respiratory sinus arrhythmia reactivity predicts emotion regulation and depressive symptoms in at-risk and control children. 20 Jul 2009
• The impact and implications of neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus in adolescents. 29 Jun 2009
• Improving adherence in mood disorders: the struggle against relapse, recurrence and suicide risk. 29 Jun 2009
• Payment as perverse defense. 29 Jun 2009
• The effects of church attendance and marital status on the longitudinal trajectories of depressed mood among older adults. 15 Jun 2009
• Involvement of medial prefrontal cortex in emotion during feedback presentation. 15 Jun 2009
• Characteristics of mood disorders in Japanese patients with medication-overuse headache. 13 Jun 2009
• The syndromal validity and nosological position of apathy in Parkinson's disease. 13 Jun 2009
• The relationship between smoking status and serious psychological distress: findings from the 2007 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. 30 May 2009
• [Emotional and affective disorders in epilepsy] 30 May 2009
• Factors influencing service utilization and mood symptom severity in children with mood disorders: effects of multifamily psychoeducation groups (MFPGs). 30 May 2009
• Design and clinical characteristics of a homogeneous schizophrenia pedigree sample from Tamil Nadu, India. 30 May 2009
• Epidemiologic heterogeneity of common mood and anxiety disorders over the lifecourse in the general population: a systematic review. 30 May 2009
• The Importance of four-factor emotional numbing and dysphoria models in PTSD. 30 May 2009
• Lithium and neuropsychiatric therapeutics: neuroplasticity via glycogen synthase kinase-3beta, beta-catenin, and neurotrophin cascades. 6 May 2009
• The value of adding the Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction Questionnaire to outcome assessments of psychiatric inpatients with mood and affective disorders. 4 May 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