Affective Disorder

Of disturbance.   May also be referred to as emotional disorder, emotional disturbance and major affective disorder.

Any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant.

This concept's ID is @1~72620

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