ôbjective: the mood disorder questionnaire (mdq) has been developed as a self-reporting, brief, and easy-to-use screening instrument to improve identification of bipolar mood disorders. the goals of the present study were to examine the prevalence of this disorder and interrelationship of its symptoms by factor analysis of mdq in a group of pregnant women in ïran. methods: ône thousand and eigh...

Yelin, Boris. M.A., Purdue University, May 2014. The case of capaz in Argentina: an epistemic adverb with mood variability. Major Professor: Lori Czerwionka. This thesis examines mood selection in Argentine Spanish with epistemic adverbs considering the independent variables of certainty, temporal reference, and epistemic adverb. It is the first known study to investigate mood selection with th...

In this essay, we approach the question of language, thought, and reality by studying how grammar lexicon encode our relation to world (veridicality). We will address fundamental categories knowledge belief focus on specific grammatical devices such as mood morphemes (subjunctive indicative), attitude verbs belief, expressions possibility necessity modal (must, may, will, might). What is functi...

In epic Greek both the optative and indicative (the so-called “modal indicative”) can be used in contexts where degree of realization is uncertain or even impossible, while Attic only used. these two articles I discuss whether there a difference between modal and/or if it determined which was original mood. As are about 1500 optatives 250 indicatives Homer, not possible to them all and, therefo...

Objectives Our primary objective was to assess the feasibility of interepisodal telephonic mood monitoring in patients with affective disorders in a low-resource setting. Secondary objectives included gathering data on longitudinal mood trajectories and assessing patient acceptance of mood monitoring. Methods Inpatients with a primary mood or anxiety disorder were recruited predischarge. Asse...

Mood states and immunity may be related. To investigate the immune status of patients with primary depressive illness, we compared in-vitro lymphocytic responses to three different mitogens in 26 drug-free depressed patients and 20 normal controls of comparable age and sex. We observed a generalized and marked decrease in the lymphocyte mitogenic activity among the depressive group. This defect...

The acute effects of the herbal anxiolytic Kava-kava (Piper methysticum G. Forster) on emotional reactivity and cognitive performance were investigated in a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial involving healthy volunteers. Subjects' reports of mood change were assessed with the state-trait-cheerfulness-inventory, which measures the three concepts of cheerfulness, seriousness and ba...

BACKGROUND A single-item assessment of sad mood after remission from MDD is predictive of relapse, yet the mechanisms that play a role in depressive relapse remain poorly understood. METHODS In 283 patients, remitted from recurrent depression (DSM-IV-TR criteria; HAM-D17 score ≤ 10), we examined emotional scarring, that is, whether the number of previous depressive episodes was associated wit...