Affective spectrum
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The affective spectrum is a spectrum of affective disorders (Mood disorders). It is a grouping of related psychiatric and medical disorders which may accompany bipolar, unipolar, and schizoaffective disorders at statistically higher rates than would normally be expected. These disorders are identified by a common positive response to the same types of pharmacologic treatments. They also aggregate strongly in families and may therefore share common heritable underlying physiologic anomalies.
Affective spectrum disorders include:
- Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder[1][2]
- Bipolar disorder
- Body dysmorphic disorder
- Bulimia nervosa[1][2] and other eating disorders
- Cataplexy[1][2]
- Dysthymia[2]
- General anxiety disorder[2]
- Hypersexuality
- Irritable bowel syndrome[1][2]
- Impulse-control disorders
- Kleptomania
- Migraine[1][2]
- Major depressive disorder[1][2]
- Narcolepsy[citation needed]
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder[1][2]
- Oppositional-defiant disorder
- Panic disorder[1][2]
- Posttraumatic stress disorder[2]
- Premenstrual dysphoric disorder[2]
- Social anxiety disorder[2]
The following may also be part of the spectrum accompanying affective disorders[citation needed].
- Chronic pain
- Intermittent explosive disorder
- Pathological gambling
- Personality disorder
- Pyromania
- Substance abuse and addiction (includes alcoholism)
- Trichotillomania
Also, there are now studies linking heart disease[citation needed].
Many of the terms above overlap. The American Psychiatric Association's definitions of these terms can be found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
