| mood disorders | Those disorders that have a disturbance in mood as their predominant feature. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| major mood disorder | See: bipolar disorder, affective psychosis, endogenous depression, dysthymia. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| familial bipolar mood disorder | <psychiatry> Bipolar mood disorder commonly inherited as an autosomal dominant trait and also occasionally as an X-linked one. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mood | Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood. "Till at the last aslaked was mood." (Chaucer) "Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything." (Shak) "The desperate recklessness of her mood." (Hawthorne) Origin: OE. Mood, mod, AS. Modmind, feeling, heart, courage; akin to OS. & OFries. Mod, D. Moed, OHG. Muot, G. Muth, mut, courage, Dan. & Sw. Mod, Icel. Mor wrath, Goth. Mods. 1. Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form). 2. Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, hypothetical, etc, without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as Mode. Origin: The same word as mode, perh. Influenced by mood temper. See Mode. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mood-congruent hallucination | Hallucination in which the content is mood appropriate. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mood-incongruent hallucination | Hallucination that is not consistent with external stimuli; content is not consistent with either manic or depressed mood. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mood swing | Oscillation of a person's emotional feeling tone between periods of euphoria and depression. (05 Mar 2000) |
| irritable mood | Abnormal or excessive excitability with easily triggered anger, annoyance, or impatience. (12 Dec 1998) |
| organic mood syndrome | <syndrome> Syndrome attributed to an organic factor characterised by either depressive or manic mood. See: bipolar disorder. (05 Mar 2000) |
| affective personality disorder | A disturbance of feelings or mood expressed as a milder form of depression and related emotional features that colour the whole psychic life and for which psychosocial stressors are believed to play the major role. (05 Mar 2000) |
| alcohol amnestic disorder | <psychiatry> A mental disorder with brain damage characterised by amnesia, compensatory confabulation, disturbance of attention, and peripheral neuritis. It is usually associated with alcoholism and dietary deficiencies. (12 Dec 1998) |
| antisocial personality disorder | <psychiatry> An individual who engages in deviant behaviour with lack of remorse. (13 Jan 1998) |
| asthenic personality disorder | A personality type characterised by low energy level, easy fatigability, incapacity for enjoyment, lack of enthusiasm, and oversensitivity to physical and emotional stress. When appearing in marked form it becomes a psychological disorder (asthenic personality disorder), also called dependent personality. Synonym: asthenic personality disorder, dependent personality disorder. (05 Mar 2000) |
| attention deficit disorder | An inability to control behaviour due to difficulty in processing neural stimuli. (12 Dec 1998) |
| attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity | A behaviour disorder originating in childhood in which the essential features are signs of developmentally inappropriate inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity. Although most individuals have symptoms of both inattention and hyperactivity-impulsivity, one or the other pattern may be predominant. The disorder is more frequent in males than females. Onset is in childhood. Symptoms often attenuate during late adolescence although a minority experience the full complement of symptoms into mid-adulthood. (12 Dec 1998) |
| attention deficit hyperactivity disorder | <psychiatry> A condition seen in children where there is increased motor activity in association with poor attention span. Often treated with amphetamine medications. (27 Sep 1997) |