Dysthymia, Cyclothymia, and Hyperthymia Hagop S. Akiskal Subthreshold affective conditions, personality, and temperament Long before psychiatry moved to the outpatient arena in the latter part of the twentieth century, psychiatrists…
Treatment of Mood Disorders E. S. Paykel J. Scott Evidence Medication and physical treatments (a) Acute treatments for depression (i) Antidepressants: general issues The first modern antidepressants became available in…
Course and Prognosis of Mood Disorders Jules Angst The importance of course Ever since Kahlbaum’s monograph 1863(1) the course and outcome of mental disorders have played important roles as criteria…
Neurobiological Aetiology of Mood Disorders Guy Goodwin Introduction Neurobiology provides an explanation of behaviour or experience at the level, either of systems of neurones or individual cells. The current era…
Genetic Aetiology of Mood Disorders Pierre Oswald Daniel Souery Julien Mendlewicz Introduction Advances towards the understanding of the etiological mechanisms involved in mood disorders provide interesting yet diverse hypotheses and…
Epidemiology of Mood Disorders Peter R. Joyce The Global Burden of Disease, which is a comprehensive assessment of mortality and disability from diseases and injuries in 1990 and projected to…
Diagnosis, Classification, and Differential Diagnosis of the Mood Disorders Gordon Parker Introduction Varying expressions of mood disorders make for difficulties in definition, diagnosis, and classification. DSMIV and ICD10 formal classifications…
Clinical Features of Mood Disorders and Mania Per Bech Introduction The clinical features of mood disorders are dimensional, i.e. distributed according to their severity.(1) The categorical approach as manifested in…
Introduction to Mood Disorders John R. Geddes Mood and disorders of mood The concept of mood is difficult to define. In psychiatry, it has come to mean a pervasive emotional…
Persistent Delusional Symptoms and Disorders Alistair Munro Introduction Delusional disorder (DSM-IV 297.1 and ICD-10 F22)(1,2) is a psychotic illness with some superficial resemblances to schizophrenia from which, however, it is…
