What Are Mood Disorders?
Mood disorders include a broad range of conditions in which your emotional state or mood is inconsistent with your circumstances and interferes with your ability to function. Mood disorders include depression and anxiety. It’s estimated that almost 10% of US adults had a mood disorder in the past year.
Featured articles on Mood Disorders
An excerpt from Cannabinoids and the Brain by Linda A. Parker (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017)
Cannabis use has commonly been reported not only to reduce anxiety but also to enhance mood and cause euphoria. Indeed, pre-clinical animal data suggest that THC (at lower doses) and CBD both produce anti-depressant effects. This suggests that cannabis use might be effective in reducing depression;... Read more
Our moods are affected by our environment, life situations, genetics, and brain activity. Some individuals are simply happier than others, and research on CB1 (cannabinoid) receptor genes gives us some clues to why that happens. [1] However, even though some are seemingy genetically destined to find and maintain happiness easier, other variables in life cannot be minimized.
Endocannabinoid system... Read more
In a shorthand that drives scientists mad, serotonin is often called ‘the neurotransmitter of happiness.’ This tag is especially troublesome as more and more flaws become apparent in the ‘serotonin hypothesis’ of depression – the idea that depression is caused by a serotonin deficit, which a pill (a serotonin reuptake inhibitor) could correct.1 Serotonin is a complex molecule in the brain and... Read more
Care By Design surveyed thousands of patients who had been using CBD-rich cannabis medicines for over 30 days. They asked patients what they were taking CBD-rich cannabis for, the ratio of CBD-to-THC they were using, and about its impact on pain, discomfort, energy, mood, and overall wellbeing.
Here’s what they learned:
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Key Findings
Medical marijuana patients are using CBD-rich... Read more
Science abstracts on Mood Disorders
- Multiple mechanisms involved in the large-spectrum therapeutic potential of cannabidiol in psychiatric disorders
- The endocannabinoid system and the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders
- The endocannabinoid system and psychiatric disorders
- The endocannabinoid system in the regulation of emotions throughout lifespan: A discussion on therapeutic perspectives
- Endocannabinoid system dysfunction in mood and related disorders
- Effects of CBD on regional cerebral blood flow
- Cannabidiol, neuroprotection and neuropsychiatric disorders
- Therapeutic potential of cannabinoids in psychosis
- Beyond the CB1 receptor: Is cannabidiol the answer for disorders of motivation?
