fibromyalgia syndrome is a common disease in population, and alleviation of pain and prescription of medication is the main treatment option in most of cases. as fibromyalgia commonly associate with mood and psychosomatic disorders, multidisciplinary approaches to treatment including nonpharmacologic therapy, could be results in better control of pain and improve quality of life of these patients.

OBJECTIVES The risk for many chronic diseases increases with obesity. In addition to these, the risk for depression also increases. Exercise interventions for weight loss among those who are not overweight or obese have shown a moderate effect on depression, but few studies have looked at those with obesity. The objectives of this study were to determine 1) the prevalence of depressed mood in o...

introduction: the purpose of this study was to assess prevalence and possible variables on the change of diagnosis in mood disorder patients to schizophrenia. methods: this study was a retrospective and comparative analytic research that was performed in 2006 at razi psychiatric hospital. the study included all of the 176 patients who were hospitalized in 2000 with diagnosis of a mood disorder....

In this paper, we address the issue of automatic prediction of readers’ mood from newspaper articles and comments. As online newspapers are becoming more and more similar to social media platforms, users can provide affective feedback, such as mood and emotion. We have exploited the self-reported annotation of mood categories obtained from the metadata of the Italian online newspaper corriere.i...

A person’s mood may directly affect a judgment of the uncertainty of a future event. Subjective probabilities were reported by subjects in a happy, neutral, or sad mood for personal and nonpersonal events. Two moods were induced by having the subject focus on particularly happy and sad personal experiences. Large, consistent mood effects are indicated. Relative to control subjects, happy people...

BACKGROUND We aimed to outline the early risk factors for adult bipolar disorder (BPD) in adolescents with mood disorders. METHODS Adolescents (16-17 years old) with mood disorders (n = 287; 90 participants with hypomania spectrum episodes and 197 with major depressive disorder [MDD]) were identified from a community sample. Fifteen years later (at 30-33 years of age), mood episodes were asse...

In 6 studies, the authors tested whether the effect of mood on self-control success depends on a person's accessible goal. We propose that positive mood signals a person to adopt an accessible goal, whereas negative mood signals a person to reject an accessible goal; therefore, if a self-improvement goal is accessible, happy (vs. neutral or unhappy) people perform better on self-control tasks t...