 Affect
"Affect" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The feeling-tone accompaniment of an idea or mental representation. It is the most direct psychic derivative of instinct and the psychic representative of the various bodily changes by means of which instincts manifest themselves.
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D000339
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.470.047
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Affect" by people in this website by year, and whether "Affect" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1996 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1998 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 1999 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2000 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2001 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2003 | 4 | 5 | 9 | | 2004 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2005 | 6 | 5 | 11 | | 2006 | 3 | 6 | 9 | | 2007 | 7 | 4 | 11 | | 2008 | 7 | 6 | 13 | | 2009 | 2 | 9 | 11 | | 2010 | 2 | 4 | 6 | | 2011 | 7 | 5 | 12 | | 2012 | 3 | 4 | 7 | | 2013 | 5 | 5 | 10 | | 2014 | 4 | 7 | 11 | | 2015 | 8 | 1 | 9 | | 2016 | 9 | 3 | 12 | | 2017 | 7 | 5 | 12 | | 2018 | 11 | 11 | 22 | | 2019 | 6 | 3 | 9 | | 2020 | 3 | 6 | 9 | | 2021 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2022 | 0 | 5 | 5 | | 2023 | 1 | 12 | 13 | | 2024 | 1 | 8 | 9 | | 2025 | 11 | 2 | 13 | | 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Affect" by people in Profiles.
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Hennessey EP, Swales DA, Markant J, Nevarez-Brewster M, Deer LK, Su C, Hoffman MC, Hankin BL, Davis EP. Fetal Cortisol Exposure and Offspring Socioemotional Development. Dev Psychobiol. 2026 Mar; 68(2):e70122.
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Dey D, Lateef HA, Leroux A, Zipunnikov V, Merikangas K. Associations between daily outdoor temperature and subjective real-time ratings of emotional states and sleep in mood disorder subtypes. J Affect Disord. 2026 Mar 15; 397:120918.
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Black VK, Allen KJD, Aazh H, Johnson SL, Erfanian M. Misophonia symptom severity is linked to impaired flexibility and heightened rumination. Br J Psychol. 2026 Feb; 117(1):271-300.
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Tang R, Bell TR, Elman JA, Reynolds CA, Gustavson DE, Puckett OK, Panizzon MS, Toomey R, McKenzie R, Lyons MJ, Hagler DJ, Fennema-Notestine C, Eyler LT, Dale AM, Franz CE, Kremen WS. Subjective memory concern, negative affect, and cortical microstructural integrity in community-dwelling middle-aged men. Geroscience. 2026 Apr; 48(2):2267-2280.
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Skrzynski CJ, Rosa L, Drake A, Bryan AD, Bidwell LC. Experimental study on cannabis use and affect: Effects on reactivity to and recovery from negative stimuli. J Psychopathol Clin Sci. 2025 Aug; 134(6):639-650.
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Granrud OE, Corporandy A, Holmlund TB, Elvevåg B, Foltz PW, Cowan T, Masucci MD, Cohen AS. Dynamic or not, here I come: Ambulatory assessment of psychomotor ability for clinical predictions. Schizophr Res. 2025 Aug; 282:49-55.
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Teh WL, Lee SYL, Chandwani N, Johnson SL, Subramaniam M, Ho RCM. Neurocognitive correlates of emotion-based urgency in DSM-5 bipolar disorder: the moderating role of diagnosis status and positive affect in a functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) experimental study. J Affect Disord. 2025 Oct 15; 387:119534.
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Rea EM, Bohnert AM, Crowley SJ. Napping, sleep and affect in late- and short- sleeping adolescents: An actigraphy and daily diary study. Sleep Health. 2025 Jun; 11(3):317-325.
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Winters DE, Spitz J, Raymond K, Natvig C, Waller R, Mikulich-Gilbertson SK, Sakai JT. Affective theory of mind impairments linked with callous-unemotional traits implicate cognitive control: A pre-registered double-blind randomized controlled trial with a dual-task paradigm. J Affect Disord. 2025 Aug 01; 382:417-427.
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Carter SJ, Blechschmid TH, Long EB, Yangchen T, Baranauskas MN, Wiggins CC, Raglin JS, Coggan AR. Pulmonary V?O2 on-kinetics and walking net V?O2 associate with fatigue and mood disturbance in postmenopausal women. Exp Gerontol. 2025 Jun 15; 205:112764.
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