A mood disorder is the term given for a group of diagnoses in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV TR) classification system where a disturbance in the person's mood is hypothesized to be the main underlying feature. The classification is known as mood (affective) disorders in ICD 10.
English psychiatrist Henry Maudsley proposed an overarching category of affective disorder. The term was then replaced by mood disorder...
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Mood disorder
Medicine
Includes Diseases:
- Bipolar disorder
- Cyclothymia
- Dysthymia
- Major Depressive disorder
- Bipolar II disorder
- Clinical depression
- Seasonal affective disorder
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