In dsm-iv-tr, this category includes depressive disorders, bipolar disorders, mood disorder due to a general medical condition, and substance-induced (intoxication or withdrawal) mood disorder.
A DSM-III-R term for major affective disorders.
A general classification of mental disorders that involve prolonged disturbance of mood, coloring the person’s outlook, such as depression and bipolar disorders (popularly called manic-depression); formerly called affective disorders. Mood disorders sometimes occur in connection with other mental or physical disorders.
Any mental disorder that has a disturbance of mood as the predominant feature. In DSM-IV, these have been divided into mood episodes, mood disorders, and specifications describing either the most recent mood episode or the course of recurrent episodes. Mood disorders, including dysthymic disorder, are divided into the depressive disorders (unipolar depression), the bipolar disorders, and two disorders based on cause (i.e., due to a general medical condition or substance-induced mood disorder). Depressive disorders are distinguished from the bipolar disorders by the absence of a history of a manic, mixed, or hypomanic episode. Bipolar I disorder and bipolar II disorder involve the presence of or history of manic episodes, mixed episodes, or hypomanic episodes, usually with a history or presence of major depressive episodes.
A cluster of conditions encompassing major depression and bipolar disorder, all distinguished by significant disturbances in the mood and emotions of affected individuals.