The improvement began during the first week of treatment, and in addition to mood, irritability, and anxiety, improvement was reflected in better family functioning, social activity and general quality of life.

When the subjects resumed normal sleep, they reported a dramatic improvement in mood.

Groups emphasizing mood recognition and awareness, group cohesion, and improvement in self-esteem can be effective in working with adolescents.

Their findings gave preliminary support to the efficacy of music therapy as a complementary therapy for social functioning and participation in rehabilitation with a trend toward improvement in mood during acute rehabilitation.

The addition of bupropion to an SSRI ( primarily fluoxetine or sertraline ) resulted in a significant improvement in 70 – 80 % of patients who had an incomplete response to the first-line antidepressant .< ref name =" pmid9614595 "> Bupropion improved ratings of " energy ", which had decreased under the influence of the SSRI ; also noted were improvements of mood and motivation, and some improvement of cognitive and sexual functions.

Church attendees present with lower rates of alcohol consumption and improvement in mood, which is associated with better physical health.

* Panax ginseng — Multiple randomized, placebo-controlled studies in healthy volunteers have been performed, results include increases in accuracy of memory, speed in performing attention tasks and improvement in performing difficult mental arithmetic tasks, as well as reduction in fatigue and improvement in mood.

Some patients report an immediate improvement in mood and in their sleeping habits after implantation.

The pharmacodynamic action encompasses activation, elevation of mood, and improvement of symptoms like dysphoria, fatigue, and difficulties in concentration.

The resulting shift of mood distracts and distorts our sense of passing time .”

Rice would describe the mood of particular songs he wanted, then Andersson and Ulvaeus would write and record the music and send the tapes to Rice, who would then write lyrics to fit the music, and send the resulting tapes back to Andersson and Ulvaeus ad infinitum.

In 1992, Virgin Records were looking for electronic bands and, after " Papua New Guinea "' s chart success, quickly signed them, giving them free rein to experiment. With their newfound contract they immediately began to play with more ambient music, resulting in the " Tales of Ephidrina " album of 1993, the first album to be released under the Amorphous Androgynous alias ; this was well received by press and marked a distinct shift from the more techno driven Accelerator, retaining some dance beats, but focussing more on texture, mood and sound, most famously on the popular track " Mountain Goat ".

The resulting ambivalence was exacerbated by a fiery temper and by the way her mood flipped between firm discipline and generous indulgence.

* Defective Comprehension Disorder, a temporary mental disorder resulting in lack of focus, small attention span, taking long periods to understand or carry out a statement, command, or request, and severe mood swings.

The mood effect of perspective distortion achieved by rectilinear extreme wide-angle lenses is that the resulting image looks grotesque and unsettling, while not looking as unrealistic as curvilinear fisheye lenses which display barrel distortion.

Attachment disorder is a broad term intended to describe disorders of mood, behavior, and social relationships arising from a failure to form normal attachments to primary care giving figures in early childhood, resulting in problematic social expectations and behaviors.

The verbs are potentially marked for tense, aspect, mood, person, and number ( resulting in some fifty conjugated forms per verb ).

Outside the mood disorders: borderline personality disorder commonly features depressed mood ; adjustment disorder with depressed mood is a mood disturbance appearing as a psychological response to an identifiable event or stressor, in which the resulting emotional or behavioral symptoms are significant but do not meet the criteria for a major depressive episode ; and posttraumatic stress disorder, an anxiety disorder that sometimes follows trauma, is commonly accompanied by depressed mood.

The resulting song set the mood and tone for the comedy film it was commissioned for.

The shift in sentiment from excessive optimism early in the year to the present mood of caution has probably been a good thing, in that it has prevented the accumulation of the burdensome inventories that have characterized many previous swings in the business cycle.

Ambassador Thompson reported from Moscow that the Soviet leader's mood was cocky and aggressive.

The tomb is somberly monotone and lacks the polychromatic excitement that detracts from the elegiac mood of Urban VIII's tomb.

In his analysis of Aalto, Giedion gave primacy to qualities that depart from direct functionality, such as mood, atmosphere, intensity of life and even national characteristics, declaring that " Finland is with Aalto wherever he goes ".

The mood of the story is fashioned from the start through names of the participants: Naomi, which means " my gracious one " or " my delight ," later asks to be called Mara, " the bitter one "; her two sons are Mahlon, " sick ", and Chilion, " weakening " or " pining " and Orpah, meaning " mane " or " gazelle ", is from the root for " nape " or " back of the neck ", appropriate for the daughter-in-law who turns her back on Naomi and returns to her people.

* A prayer for future prosperity ( 7: 14 – 17 ): The mood switches from a request for power to grateful astonishment at God's mercy.

There is fairly consistent evidence from prospective studies that recent life events and interpersonal relationships contribute to the likelihood of onsets and recurrences of bipolar mood episodes, as they do for onsets and recurrences of unipolar depression.

Elfman was apprehensive at first because of his lack of formal training, but with orchestration assistance from Oingo Boingo guitarist and arranger Steve Bartek, he achieved his goal of emulating the mood of such composers as Nino Rota and Bernard Herrmann.

He was in a melancholy mood about the trip and his health was poor, relying on an inhaler to aid his breathing and there were reports that he was suffering from blackouts.

An unexpected olive branch came from King George V, who, in a speech in Belfast called for reconciliation on all sides, changed the mood and enabled the British and Irish Republican governments to agree to a truce.

This theory stems from a history of numerous studies indicating that positive mood increases the frequency of helping and prosocial behaviors.

Whale suffered from mood swings and grew increasingly and frustratingly more dependent on others as his mental faculties were diminishing.

The distinctive quality of Achard's plays was their dreamlike mood of sentimental melancholy, underscored by the very titles which were primarily taken from popular bittersweet songs of the day.

But instead of paying up, local police officers panicked and tried to get rid of Miss Phombeya ( now visibly parading her anger in front of the verandah restaurant ) in the process hurting her toe ; whereupon a crowd soon gathered outside Ryall's Hotel and quickly the mood shifted from the ' hurting toe ' to protesting the imprisonment of Banda and other local leaders by the federation government.

The World Health Organization's classification system defines a manic episode as one where mood is higher than the person's situation warrants and may vary from relaxed high spirits to barely controllable exuberance, accompanied by hyperactivity, a compulsion to speak, a reduced sleep requirement, difficulty sustaining attention and, often, increased distractability.

Melancholia ( from Greek-melancholia, " sadness ", literally black bile ), also lugubriousness, from the Latin lugere, to mourn ; moroseness, from the Latin morosus, self-willed, fastidious habit ; wistfulness, from old English wist: intent, or saturnine, ( see Saturn ), in contemporary usage, is a mood disorder of non-specific depression, characterized by low levels of both enthusiasm and eagerness for activity.

The series also made extensive use of incidental music, composed by Ed Welch, which often hinted at a particular genre to fit the mood of the scenes, frequently incorporating well-known pieces of music such as " God rest you merry, gentlemen " or Intermezzo from Jean Sibelius ' Karelia Suite.

The novel begins with Deckard feeling alienated from his bed-ridden wife, Iran, who misuses her mood organ device, intended to keep the population in even temper, by dialing the depression setting daily.

Sources from Pakistan claimed that Musharraf and his military government's officers were in full mood to exercise tough conditions on Sharif, was intended to sent Navaz Sharif to gallows to face similar fate as Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1979.

Often depicting few characters and concentrating a ' single effect ' or mood, it differs from the anecdote in its use of plot, and the variety of literary techniques it shares with the more extensive novel.

One such article was from the Daily Express, in which the interviewer noted " a lightening change came over her face ", which was the first public mention of the rapid changes in mood that became characteristic of her.

Another Cochrane review in 2009, of bipolar disorder, found the efficacy and risk / benefit ratio better for the traditional mood stabilizer lithium than for the antipsychotic Olanzapine as a first line maintenance treatment.

CBT is thought to be effective for the treatment of a variety of conditions, including mood, anxiety, personality, eating, substance abuse, tic, and psychotic disorders.

Dr John Frederick Joseph Cade AO ( 18 January 1912 – 16 November 1980 ) was an Australian psychiatrist credited with discovering ( in 1948 ) the effects of lithium carbonate as a mood stabilizer in the treatment of bipolar disorder ( then known as manic depression ).

When the manic behaviours have gone, long-term treatment then focuses on prophylactic treatment to try to stabilize the patient's mood, typically through a combination of pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy.

Verapamil, a calcium-channel blocker, is useful in the treatment of hypomania and in those cases where lithium and mood stabilizers are contraindicated or ineffective.

Antidepressant monotherapy is not recommended for the treatment of depression in patients with bipolar disorders I or II, and no benefit has been demonstrated by combining antidepressants with mood stabilizers in these patients.

Although this group is also defined by effect rather than mechanism, there is at least a preliminary understanding of the mechanism of most of the anticonvulsants used in the treatment of mood disorders.

* Lithium – Lithium is the " classic " mood stabilizer, the first to be approved by the US FDA, and still popular in treatment.

The TCAs are used primarily in the clinical treatment of mood disorders such as major depressive disorder ( MDD ), dysthymia, and treatment-resistant variants.

As with contemporary productions of Pericles, this one used a narrator ( Cornelius ) to signal changes in mood and treatment to the audience.

Antidepressants such as paroxetine ( Paxil ), Fluoxetine hydrochloride ( Prozac ), and Venlafaxine hydrochloride ( Effexor ) have been used with some success in the treatment of hot flashes, improving sleep, mood, and quality of life.

Therapeutic and medical treatment should center on the underlying psychiatric disorder: a mood disorder, an anxiety disorder, or borderline personality disorder.

Antipsychotics are also used as mood stabilizers in the treatment of bipolar disorder, even if no symptoms of psychosis are present.

It is important to discriminate the improved mood associated with recovery from the winter depression and a manic episode because there are important treatment differences.

She also explores research that identifies mood disorders in such famous writers and artists as Ernest Hemingway ( who shot himself after electroconvulsive treatment ), Virginia Woolf ( who drowned herself when she felt a depressive episode coming on ), composer Robert Schumann ( who died in a mental institution ), and even the famed visual artist Michelangelo.

Of the mood stabilizers studied, valproate semisodium may ameliorate depression and interpersonal problems, and it may reduce anger ; lamotrigine may reduce impulsivity and anger, topiramate may ameliorate interpersonal problems, impulsivity, anxiety, anger and general psychiatric pathology, but carbamazepine treatment demonstrated no significant effect.

As for the children who participated in the study, their behavior and mood not only changed, but they were more willing to go to treatment after having these interactions.

Anticonvulsants are also increasingly being used in the treatment of bipolar disorder, since many seem to act as mood stabilizers, and for the treatment of neuropathic pain.

The mainstay of current treatment is antipsychotic medication combined with mood stabilizer medication or antidepressant medication, or both.

Schizoaffective disorder was included as a subtype of schizophrenia in DSM-I and DSM-II, though research showed a schizophrenic cluster of symptoms in individuals with a family history of mood disorders whose illness course, other symptoms and treatment outcome were otherwise more akin to bipolar disorder than to schizophrenia.