affective disorder

NOUN
  1. any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant
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How To Use affective disorder In A Sentence

  • He'd like "happiness" to be given a new and more scientifically descriptive label, to wit "Major affective disorder, pleasant type".
  • Light therapy, also called phototherapy, has been used to treat seasonal affective disorder since the early 1980s, and it has many benefits.
  • A study published in the October 2001 Journal of Affective Disorders found an inverse relationship between fish consumption and postpartum depression in 23 countries.
  • F.F. was a 36 year old white married female with a schizoaffective disorder who presented to a hospital after an intentional ingestion of colchicine, fluphenazine, lorazepam, benztropine and ethanol. Colchicine Poisoning
  • Psychologists look for such disorders and problems as seasonal affective disorder, aggressive behavior, alcohol abuse and depression.
  • There was also a low prevalence of affective disorders in the violent group.
  • Light therapy has been used previously for people with significant seasonal affective disorder as well as nonseasonal depression. The Flex Diet
  • A therapeutic range has not been established for valproic acid in affective disorders.
  • Depression also is a symptom of other illnesses, such as bipolar disorder and schizoaffective disorder.
  • It's not Seasonal Affective Disorder or anything, just that the new year always feels like a gaberdine raincoat that's far too big and baggy and I wallow around in it for a while feeling all wrong, out of step and in danger of tripping over all day long. Harbingers
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