title: The emerging modern face of mood disorders: a didactic editorial with a detailed presentation of data and definitions.
abstract: The present work represents a detailed description of our current understanding and knowledge of the epidemiology, etiopathogenesis and clinical manifestations of mood disorders, their comorbidity and overlap, and the effect of variables such as gender and age. This review article is largely based on the 'Mood disorders' chapter of the Wikibooks Textbook of Psychiatry http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Textbook_of_Psychiatry/Mood_Disorders.
authors.affiliation: Third Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. kfount@med.auth.gr
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