Our driving vision is a smartphone service, called MoodSense, that can infer its owner’s mood based on information already available in today’s smartphones. The service will fundamentally enhance context-awareness by providing clues about mobile users’ mental states. We report early results from studying 25 iPhone users in the field and the correlation between their mood and phone usage. We sho...

To the Editor: Seasonal climate variations are notably known to affect mood in both individuals with and individuals without mental disorders.1,2 Intriguingly, the prevalence of mood disorders differs greatly from one country to another. For example, lifetime prevalence has been measured at 21% in France and the United States, compared with under 5% in Nigeria.3 Since seasonal variations could ...

Retrieval of previously self-generated events in the form of verbal associations was observed to be mood-state dependent in individuals who cycled between states of mania and normality. Recall of associations was more complete during periods of relatively stable mood, including periods of mania, compared to the reproduction of associations that were generated and retrieved during periods of dis...

Despite its obvious importance in mood disorders, characterization of emotional reactivity has been neglected in bipolar disorders. Concerning manic states and the current classification, the main criterion is the presence of an elevated or expansive mood. In contrast to this characteristic and often prolonged mood state, emotional reactivity refers to a brief evoked response to salient emotion...

Very often clinicians meet great difficulties in making a correct diagnosis of mood disorders which they are assessing, above all when mixed states are present: this because the patients mainly focus on their own symptoms of depressive uneasiness; mixed symptoms can insidiously infiltrate into the mood and life of the patients causing a chronic and worsening clinical state. It is essential not ...

Remembering to perform an intention in the future when some environmental cue is encountered is referred to as event-based prospective memory. The influence of mood on this future-oriented memory is unclear. By experimentally manipulating mood, the current set of experiments sought to examine the influence that differing mood states have on encoding future intentions. Participants were induced ...

PURPOSE The purpose of the present study was to assess whether salivary human herpesvirus (HHV)-6 acted as a new sensitive stress marker, providing a reliable indicator of stress among shift work nurses. Salivary HHV-6, immunoglobulin (Ig) A and mood states were compared among nurses who worked day shifts only and nurses who worked different numbers of night shifts. METHODS Participants inclu...