Mood Disorders - Therapy
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Sunday, November 22, 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...

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...

Impact of multifamily psychoeducational psychotherapy in treating children aged 8 to 12 years with mood disorders.

30 Aug 2009 CONTEXT: Childhood mood disorders lack sufficient evidence-based treatments. While psychosocial treatments are recommended for both childhood depression and bipolar disorder, empirical support is scarce. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether adjunctive ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mood Disorders - Therapy'

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
• Use of complementary and alternative medicine among individuals with serious mood disorders receiving electroconvulsive therapy. 30 Aug 2009
• Introducing the expert electroconvulsive therapy physician for 2009: one person's reflection. 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
• Impact of multifamily psychoeducational psychotherapy in treating children aged 8 to 12 years with mood disorders. 30 Aug 2009
• Long-term effects of pallidal deep brain stimulation in tardive dystonia. 5 Jul 2009
• Depression in younger people. 29 Jun 2009
• Service use for mental health problems: findings from the 2007 National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing. 29 Jun 2009
• Comorbidity in Australia: findings of the 2007 National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing. 29 Jun 2009
• Payment as perverse defense. 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
• Why we recommend analytic treatment for some patients and not for others. 13 Jun 2009
• Mental health problems of men attending district-level clinical psychology services in South Africa. 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
• Mood disorders in elderly population: neurostimulative treatment possibilities. 30 May 2009
• Transcranial magnetotherapy in the complex treatment of affective disorders in patients with alcoholism. 30 May 2009
• Adults with congenital heart disease: psychological needs and treatment preferences. 29 Apr 2009
• A proposed role for the psychiatrist in the treatment of adolescents with type I diabetes. 29 Apr 2009
• Employment among persons with past and current mood and anxiety disorders in the Israel National Health Survey. 29 Apr 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