title: Treatment of acute major mood disturbance.
abstract: Depression is a common presentation in family practice, and together with mania, constitutes the group of psychiatric disorders known as major mood disturbance. There are many ways to approach these problems from classification to management. Drug treatment is thought to be more successful in the presence of biological symptoms, and the GP should be familiar with one or two drugs from each group for best effect.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Livingston
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000628:therapy*; D003863:Depression / Q000145:classification / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans