Ann Gen Psychiatry. 2010 Apr 12;9:14. doi: 10.1186/1744-859X-9-14.
Annals of general psychiatry
Konstantinos N Fountoulakis
PMID: 20385020 PMCID: PMC2865463 DOI: 10.1186/1744-859X-9-14
The present work represents a detailed description of our current understanding and knowledge of the epidemiology, etiopathogenesis and clinical manifestations of mood disorders, their comorbidity and overlap, and the effect of variables such as gender and age. This review article is largely based on the 'Mood disorders' chapter of the Wikibooks Textbook of Psychiatry http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Textbook_of_Psychiatry/Mood_Disorders.