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Mood Disorders | Affective Disorders

A mood disorder is the term given for a group of diagnoses in the DSM IV TR classification system where a disturbance in the person's emotional mood is hypothesised to be the main underlying feature. The classification is known as mood (affective) disorders in ICD 10.

Two groups of mood disorders are broadly recognized; the division is based on whether the person has ever had a manic or hypomanic episode. Thus, there are depressive disorders, of which the best known and most researched is Major depressive disorder commonly called Major depression, and Bipolar disorder, formerly known as "manic depression" and described by intermittent periods of manic and depressed episodes.

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