affective disorder
Noun 1. any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant (synonym) major affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance (hypernym) mental disorder, mental disturbance, disturbance, psychological disorder, folie (hyponym) depressive disorder, clinical depression, depression | ||||
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Affective disorder Definition from Medicine Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Affective Disorder
Mental disorder involving abnormal moods and emotions; affective disorders include manic depressive disorder
Mental disorder involving abnormal moods and emotions; affective disorders include manic depressive disorder
Affective disorder Definition from Society & Culture Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Affective disorder
A type of psychological disorder that is characterized by recurrent episodes of mania, depression, or both.
A type of psychological disorder that is characterized by recurrent episodes of mania, depression, or both.
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Affective disorder
A category of disorders in which the individual experiences excessive depression or elation. Examples include depression and bipolar disorder (manic-depression). Affective disorders are often found among pathological gamblers.
A category of disorders in which the individual experiences excessive depression or elation. Examples include depression and bipolar disorder (manic-depression). Affective disorders are often found among pathological gamblers.
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Affective spectrum
The affective spectrum is a grouping of related psychiatric and medical disorders which may accompany bipolar, unipolar, and schizoaffective disorders at statistically higher rates than would normally be expected. These disorders are identified by a common positive response to the same types of pharmacologic treatments. They also aggregate strongly in families and may therefore share common heritable underlying physiologic anomalies. Affective spectrum disorders include:
- Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Bipolar disorder
- Body dysmorphic disorder
- Bulimia nervosa and other eating disorders
- Cataplexy
- Dysthymia
- General anxiety disorder
- Hypersexuality
- Impulse-control disorders
- Kleptomania
- Migraine
- Major Depressive Disorder
- Narcolepsy
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Panic disorder
- Posttraumatic stress disorder
- Premenstrual dysphoric disorder
- Social phobia
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