The evolving nosology of mood disorders.
The biological mechanisms underlying the major psychiatric disorders remain mysterious, resulting in a lack of precision in diagnosis and controversies in nosology. This is especially true for the mood disorders. This issue of the International Review of Psychiatry reviews several of these controversies with special attention to syndromic manifestations of affective disorder that are often missing in modern nosological systems.
Mondimore
Francis M
FM
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA. fmondimo@jhmi.edi
Depaulo
J Raymond
JR
D006801:Humans; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*