In our study, a positive family history of
affective disorders was defined as 'any first-degree relative who had bipolar disorder, depression, or other
affective disorders'.
"And people with seasonal
affective disorder have depression approximately five months a year, most years.
DISCUSSION: The present study assessed the prevalence of bipolar
affective disorder in substance use disorder patients, their sociodemographic variables and relationship between the two disorders.
Chronotherapeutics for
affective disorders: a clinician's manual for light and wake therapy.
This manual was written with the intent to allow clinicians to use the principles of chronotherapeutics in their treatment of patients with seasonal
affective disorder, non-seasonal depression, and other psychologic and neurologic illnesses.
The study is published in the Journal of
Affective Disorders.
The prevalence of seasonal
affective disorders in the Netherlands: a prospective and retrospective study of seasonal mood variation in the general population.
Henry David Thoreau: Cycles and Psyche is a deep exploration of classic author Henry David Thoreau's self-declared "Insanity." Writen by expert psychiatric consultant Michael Sperber, Cycles and Psyche uses Icarian and Daedalian imagery in its search to identify masked
affective disorders in the great writer.
Various possible relationships between alcoholism and
affective disorders have been postulated (see table 1) (for more information, see Nurnberger and Berrettini 1998; Merikangas and Gelernter 1990).
Journal of
Affective Disorders, 1998; 51: entire issue.