Wiktionary
n. (lb en psychology) Any of various disorders characterised by disturbance in an individual's mood.
WordNet
n. any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant [syn: major affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance]
Wikipedia
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Usage examples of "affective disorder".
Schizo-affective disorder with mania and paranoia is not the same thing as an antisocial psychotic.
The weather, with its constant overcast, is such that 943 out of the 1,006 people on this expedition have had to be treated for the form of depression known as 'seasonal affective disorder.
Shaftoe and Bischoff, both mired in the yet-to-be-discovered emotional dumps of Seasonal Affective Disorder, are like two brothers trapped in the same pit of quicksand, each keeping a sharp eye on the other.
During the wintry depths of his depression, his seasonal affective disorder in Elton, New Mexico, Dr.
The fact that the place was like an experimental environment for inducing seasonal affective disorder may also have been a subconscious factor.
Every autumn during her adult life, she fell ill with a variety of symptoms - modern doctors might well conclude that she suffered from a seasonal affective disorder.
There was even a medical name for the condition: seasonal affective disorder.