Psychiatry
Volume 5, Issue 4 , Pages 134-137, 1 April 2006

Mood disorders in the general hospital setting

Anthony J Cleare is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry and Consultant Psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital, London, UK. He trained in psychiatry at the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley hospitals, and spent 6 years as a liaison psychiatrist at King's College Hospital, London. His research interests include neurobiological aspects of depression, chronic fatigue syndrome, and their treatments.

Abstract 

Mood disorder is common in the liaison psychiatry setting, affected by biological and psychosocial effects of medical illness and its treatment. Presentation with somatization and functional symptoms is common. Depression can adversely affect the outcome of medical illnesses, but effective treatment using the usual evidence-based treatments may reverse this.

Keywords:  mood disorders , affective disorder , antidepressants , chronic fatigue syndrome , depression , functional symptoms , liaison psychiatry , medical illness , organic illness , physical illness , somatization

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PII: S1476-1793(06)70029-5

doi:10.1383/psyt.2006.5.4.134

Psychiatry
Volume 5, Issue 4 , Pages 134-137, 1 April 2006

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