major affective disorder

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major affective disorder

Any of a group of disorders that share certain features under the DSM-IV: bipolar disorder type I, schizoaffective disorder (bipolar type), bipolar disorder type II and major depression.

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The most common diagnoses are schizophrenic disorders, major affective disorders, such as depression or bipolar (manic-depression), and/or serious anxiety or personality disorders.

The Social Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation: adapting to change

His treatment of major affective disorders is less well crafted than the rest of his book, and lies buried among minor topics.

Deadly Doctrine: Health, Illness, and Christian God-Talk

Many of the patients carried dual diagnoses, the most prevalent being major affective disorders and alcoholism, continuous.

Detection of suicidal risk among hospitalized veterans: preliminary experience with a suicide prediction scale

Fawcett said, moving on to his own landmark (and ongoing since 1978) study in which researchers followed 954 patients with major affective disorders after release from a psychiatric hospital (Am.

Severe anxiety presages suicide risk, data show: expert questions traditional indicators