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Mood Disorders

Most people feel sad or irritable from time to time. They may say they're in a bad mood. A mood disorder is different. It affects a person's everyday emotional state. Nearly one in ten people aged 18 and older have mood disorders. These include depression and bipolar disorder (also called manic depression).

Mood disorders can increase a person's risk for heart disease, diabetes, and other diseases. Treatments include medication, psychotherapy, or a combination of both. With treatment, most people with mood disorders can lead productive lives.

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  1. Mood Disorders (National Library of Medicine)  
    ... They may say they're in a bad mood. A mood disorder is different. It affects a person's everyday emotional state. Nearly one in ten people aged 18 and older have mood disorders. These include depression and bipolar disorder (also ...
  2. ... date, such as information on how the variant affects the function or production of the protein that ...
  3. To function correctly, each cell depends on thousands of proteins to do their jobs in the right places at the right times. Sometimes, gene variants (also ...
  4. Seasonal Affective Disorder (National Library of Medicine)  
    ... an imbalance of serotonin, a brain chemical that affects your mood. Their bodies also make too much melatonin, a ...
  5. ... functioning of proteins made from them, which may affect body processes. Copy number variation accounts for a ... number. While much of this variation does not affect health or development, some differences influence a person’ ...
  6. Changes that affect the structure of chromosomes can cause problems with growth, development, and function of the body's systems. These changes can affect many genes along the chromosome and disrupt the ...
  7. ... or that alter the structure of chromosomes can affect health and development when they occur in noncoding ...
  8. Human cells normally contain 23 pairs of chromosomes, for a total of 46 chromosomes in each cell . A change in the number of chromosomes can cause problems with ...
  9. Mitochondria are structures within cells that convert the energy from food into a form that cells can use. Although most DNA is packaged in chromosomes within the ...
  10. Passed in 2008, a federal law called the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) made it illegal for health insurance providers in the United States ...
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