Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Anke Ehlers Introduction Clinicians have long noted that traumatic events can lead to severe psychological disturbance. At the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the…
Acute Stress Reactions
Acute Stress Reactions Anke Ehlers Allison G. Harvey Richard A. Bryant Introduction Exceptionally stressful life events can cause severe psychological symptoms, including anxiety, feelings of derealization and depersonalization, and hyperarousal….
Dysthymia, Cyclothymia, and Hyperthymia
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…
