Mood

A reader-friendly yet in-depth overview of the latest research on mood as the way we are tuned to the world. This book examines the central role that mood plays in determining our outlook on life and our ability to cope with its challenges. The central theme is that mood determines how we are tuned to the world. Tuning emerges over the course of our earliest development as environmental and genetic influences form the neural circuits and set how they function across the lifespan in daily life and under conditions of stress. How each person is tuned becomes the basis for resilience or vulnerability to events. Some will take events in stride; others may become angry, anxious, or sad. A child psychiatrist with decades of clinical experience treating patients, the author stresses that relationships play a central role in shaping our mood. Security or insecurity, loss or the fear of loss of key relationships, especially in childhood, can have telling effects on the way we view the world. A chapter is devoted to each of the disorders where mood is a central issue- depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and antisocial disruptive disorders. The author then discus

“"A well-written and well-organized introduction to the origins of mood and its relationship to the human experience. . . . An important addition to the library of anyone who strives to understand the complex nature of human emotion as well as the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that determine behavior." --D. Richard Martini, MD, Division Chief of Behavioral Health, Department of Pediatrics, and Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, University of Utah School of Medicine”

""A well-written and well-organized introduction to the origins of mood and its relationship to the human experience. . . . An important addition to the library of anyone who strives to understand the complex nature of human emotion as well as the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that determine behavior."-D. Richard Martini, MD, Division Chief of Behavioral Health, Department of Pediatrics, and Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, University of Utah School of Medicine

Patrick M. Burke, MB, BCH, PhD (Tucson, AZ), is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Arizona. His previous positions include child and adolescent psychiatrist at La Frontera, Inc. and the Tucson Medical Center, medical director of Pantano Behavioral Health, chief of child and adolescent psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona, and clinical and academic positions at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh, Seattle Children's Hospital, and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Washington. He has published book chapters and many scientific articles in medical publications.

A reader-friendly yet in-depth overview of the latest research on mood as the way we are tuned to the world. This book examines the central role that mood plays in determining our outlook on life and our ability to cope with its challenges. The central theme is that mood determines how we are tuned to the world. Tuning emerges over the course of our earliest development as environmental and genetic influences form the neural circuits and set how they function across the lifespan in daily life and under conditions of stress. How each person is tuned becomes the basis for resilience or vulnerability to events. Some will take events in stride; others may become angry, anxious, or sad. A child psychiatrist with decades of clinical experience treating patients, the author stresses that relationships play a central role in shaping our mood. Security or insecurity, loss or the fear of loss of key relationships, especially in childhood, can have telling effects on the way we view the world. A chapter is devoted to each of the disorders where mood is a central issue- depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and antisocial disruptive disorders. The author then discus

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