Psychiatry and Psychology

Psychotic Affective Disorders

Disorders in which the essential feature is a severe disturbance in mood (depression, anxiety, elation, and excitement) accompanied by psychotic symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, gross impairment in reality testing, etc.

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Abstract

Disorders in which the essential feature is a severe disturbance in mood (depression, anxiety, elation, and excitement) accompanied by psychotic symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, gross impairment in reality testing, etc.

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Synonyms

12 entry terms
  • Affective Disorders, Psychotic
  • Psychoses, Affective
  • Affective Disorder, Psychotic
  • Affective Psychoses
  • Disorder, Psychotic Affective
  • Disorders, Psychotic Affective
  • Psychotic Affective Disorder
  • Depression, Reactive, Psychotic
  • Mood Disorders, Psychotic
  • Psychotic Mood Disorders
  • Mood Disorder, Psychotic
  • Psychotic Mood Disorder

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31 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.

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History Note

81; DEPRESSION, REACTIVE, PSYCHOTIC was see under PSYCHOSES 1977-80; AFFECTIVE DISTURBANCES was heading 1969-80

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WM 207

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Psychotic Affective Disorders. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000341. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000341
  2. Psychotic Affective Disorders. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q69880879