Mood Disorders
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Saturday, November 21, 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...

The therapeutic potential of the endocannabinoid system for the development of a novel class of antidepressants.

Sep 2009 The endocannabinoid system is a neuromodulatory system which is known to regulate emotional, cognitive, neurovegetative and motivational processes. Substantial evidence has accumulated implicating a deficit in endocannabinoid in the etiology 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...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mood Disorders'

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
• The therapeutic potential of the endocannabinoid system for the development of a novel class of antidepressants. 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
• Mood episodes and mood disorders: patterns of incidence and conversion in the first three decades of life. 30 Aug 2009
• Recognizing ADHD in adults with comorbid mood disorders: implications for identification and management. 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
• A preliminary study of lamotrigine in the treatment of affective instability in borderline personality disorder. 30 Aug 2009
• Laterality of cortical response to ethanol is moderated by TaqIA A1 allele. 30 Aug 2009
• Prevalence and predictors of emotional and behavioural functioning of children where a parent has cancer: a multinational study. 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
• Presence of pre-existing psychological comorbidity in a group of facially injured patients: a preliminary investigation. 30 Aug 2009
• Cross-national analysis of the associations among mental disorders and suicidal behavior: findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys. 9 Aug 2009
• Psychological intervention poststroke: ready for action? 4 Aug 2009
• Association of the serotonin transporter gene promoter region (5-HTTLPR) polymorphism with biased attention for emotional stimuli. 30 Jul 2009
• Association analysis of functional polymorphism in estrogen receptor alpha gene with schizophrenia and mood disorders in the Japanese population. 30 Jul 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