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Also known as episodic mood disorder, affective psychosis, affective disorder, mood [affective] disorders, mood disorders

any of various disorders characterised primarily by disturbance in an individual's mood

Key facts

Other names
mental disorder
Specialty
Neuro psychiatry
Types
Bipolar disorder , cyclothymia , disruptive mood dysregulation disorder , dysthymia , major depressive disorder , premenstrual dysphoric disorder , seasonal affective disorder
Medication
Antidepressants, mood stabilizers, antipsychotics

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Research

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Wikidata facts

Subclass of
mental disorder
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topic's main category
Category:Mood disorders
health specialty
clinical psychology
Commons category
Mood disorders
NCI Thesaurus ID
C92200
drug or therapy used for treatment
flutoprazepam
genetic association
PBRM1
ICD-9-CM
296.99
topic has template
Template:Mood disorders
possible treatment
psychiatric medication
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WikiProject Psychology
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Encyclopedic overview

A mood disorder, also known as an affective disorder, is any of a group of conditions of mental and behavioral disorder where the main underlying characteristic is a disturbance in the person's mood. The classification is in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and International Classification of Diseases (ICD).

Mood disorders fall into seven groups, including: 1. abnormally elevated mood, such as mania or hypomania; 2. depressed mood, of which the best-known and most researched is major depressive disorder (MDD) (alternatively known as clinical depression, unipolar depression, or major depression); and 3. moods which cycle between mania and depression, known as bipolar disorder (BD) (formerly known as manic depression). 4. There are several subtypes of depressive disorders or psychiatric syndromes featuring less severe symptoms such as dysthymic disorder (similar to MDD, but longer lasting and more persistent, though often milder) and cyclothymic disorder (similar to but milder than BD).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “mood disorder” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.