disturbance of mood
1mood disorders — [DSM IV] mental disorders whose essential feature is a disturbance of mood manifested as one or more episodes of mania, hypomania, depression, or some combination. Functional mood disorders are subclassified as bipolar disorders, including… …
2Mood disorder — Classification and external resources ICD 10 F30 F39 ICD 9 …
3disturbance — noun 1 actions that upset the normal state of sb/sth ADJECTIVE ▪ great, major, serious ▪ minimal, minimum, minor, slight ▪ environmental …
4mood — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ cheerful, cheery, good, happy, jovial, pleasant ▪ She was not in the best of moods. ▪ bullish (BrE) …
5mood disorder and hallucinations — The term mood disorder refers to a psychiatric disorder characterized by a prominent mood disturbance, i.e. a manic, depressed, or mixed state. The two prime examples of mood disorder are bipolar disorder and unipolar depressive disorder. Ever …
6substance-induced mood disorder — [DSM IV] a prominent and lasting disturbance of mood, either manic, depressive, or both, due to direct physiological effects of a psychoactive substance, including medications, drugs of abuse, and toxins. Individual cases are named for the… …
7Depression and Mood Disorders: Emergence — The word depression has a number of meanings, depending on the discipline. Within neurophysiology, it refers to a decrease in the brain’s electrical activity causing, for example, cortical depression. For the pharmacologist, depression means… …
8Depression (mood) — Albrecht Dürer s engraving Melencolia I, ca. 1514 Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity that can affect a person s thoughts, behaviour, feelings and physical well being.[1] Depressed people may feel sad, anxious, empty,… …
9subjunctive mood — 1. The subjunctive mood, one of the great shifting sands of English grammar, is a verbal form or mood expressing wish or hypothesis in contrast to fact, and usually denotes what is imagined, wished, demanded, proposed, and so on. In modern… …
10Serious Emotional Disturbance — In U.S. healthcare, SED is an acronym for serious emotional disturbance (or in some areas, severely emotionally disturbed). DefinitionEmotional Disturbance is one of thirteen disabilities outlined in the Individuals with Disabilities Education… …
