In DSM-IV, this category includes depressive disorders, bipolar disorders, mood disorder due to a general medical condition, and substance-induced (intoxication/withdrawal) mood disorder.
Syndromes that have depressive or manic symptoms as their primary feature.
Disorders in which there are disabling disturbances in emotion.
Emotional behavior inappropriate for one's age or circumstances, characterized by, for example, unusual excitability, guilt, anxiety, or hostility.
A group of disorders distinguished primarily by changes in mood and motivation; these include bipolar disorder and major depression. See also bipolar disorder, depression, major depression, mania.
Mental disorders characterised by a prominent or persistent mood disturbance. Disturbances can be either elevated emotional states (eg, mania) or depressed emotional states. Included are dysthymia, major depression and bipolar disorder.
Everyone has changes in their mood and there are good reasons for these mood changes. If you have just had dinner with friends you may feel happy and if your pet has just died you may feel sad. Usually our mood is suitable for what is happening in our lives. People who have mood disorders tend to have big changes in their moods for no obvious reason. They may be excited or happy for no reason or upset and sad when good things are happening in their lives. When severe mood swings keep happening without good reason it is likely that the person has a mood disorder.
Also known as affective disorders, a group of illnesses that disrupt normal moods.
Serious disorders that include depressive, manic or mixed mood episodes as primary clinical features. The principal mood disorders described in contemporary Western psychiatry include major depressive disorder (formerly unipolar depression), bipolar disorder (formerly manic-depressive disorder), dysthymic disorder, and cyclothymic disorder.
disorders of disturbed mood that are maladaptive; include depressive disorders, bipolar disorder, those caused by a medical condition or substance use.
Those disorders that have a disturbance in mood as their predominant feature.
mental disorders that are characterized by a prominent or persistent mood disturbance; disturbances can be in the direction of elevated expansive emotional states, or, if in the opposite direction, depressed emotional states. Included are Depressive Disorders, Bipolar Disorders, mood disorders due to a medical condition, and substance-induced mood disorders
A set of psychiatric diagnoses in which the major problem is mood regulation. Mood may be too low (depression), too high (mania), or too high at some times and too low at others (bipolar disorder).
Examples - bipolar disorder, major depression, and dysthymia.
The most common mood disorders are depression and bi-polarity.