Affective disorders, also called mood disorders, include major depression and bipolar (manic-depressive) disorder.
The prescription scheme is being run in parallel with the agency's promotion called Mood Boosting Books.
There will also be something called "mood messages," which will allow users to "explain how they are feeling and what they are doing with their friends and families, no matter where they happen to be," according to Skype's release.
In popular language, these may be called "mood swings".
In his online shop, Antioxidant Complex costs £34.70; Immunoguard, £24.15; Kids Complete Complex, £12.95 – and something he calls Mood Food is £24.45.
He believes a new focus on what he calls "mood science" is more helpful than a focus on diagnoses of depression.
Canon Alan Amos, the hospital chaplain, said: "He likes to play what I would call mood music - quite circular in nature without defined beginnings or endings".
LOCOG have prepared what they call "mood VTs" and "A-Z VTs" to show on big screens, to excite the viewer about the event and to explain its nuances to the uninitiated.
For R Alexander Bentley and Michael J O'Brien, the theretofore mentioned professors, the n-gram tool has facilitated a study, just published, of the frequency of usage of what they call mood words – anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness and surprise, though not, I am saddened and surprised to note, "database", which might not be a mood word in itself but induces a mood of anger and disgust in me.
Those young toughs on the street corner flinging words at each other like knives sound much less menacing when you know they're only debating which film to go to, and a passionate tête-a-tête in the supermarket aisle deflates somewhat when it's about tomato sauce.The way a language sounds to someone who doesn't speak it is something that I'm not sure has a formal name, but which I'll call mood.
Amid all this activity, Cline has two more albums on the way: a duet release with Grammy-nominated guitar phenom Julian Lage, who has recorded with pianist Fred Hersch and the New Gary Burton Quartet, and a collection of what he calls "mood music," which includes 13 to 21 musicians from both coasts on a project called "Lovers".
