Developmental pathways towards mood disorders in adult life: is there a role for sleep disturbances?

Mood disorders refer to a group of diagnoses in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) (American  Psychiatric Association 2013) classification system with a disturbance of mood as central feature. Mood disorders which encompass symptoms of elevated mood, such as mania or hypomania, as well as depressed mood, have been grouped into several sub-types according to clinical presentation, dominant features and course of the disorder (American Psychiatric Association 2013). Mood disorders are characterized by severely and/or prolonged altered mood, and among the others emotion and motivation dysregulation, cognitive problems in attention, concentration and decision making, changes in sleep wi th mainly insomnia and have a high risk for suicidality and suicide (Hofmann et al.
Source: Journal of Affective Disorders - Category: Neurology Authors: Tags: Review article Source Type: research