 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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| 1995 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 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 | 5 | 5 | 10 | | 2004 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 2005 | 6 | 5 | 11 | | 2006 | 3 | 6 | 9 | | 2007 | 6 | 4 | 10 | | 2008 | 8 | 6 | 14 | | 2009 | 2 | 6 | 8 | | 2010 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2011 | 7 | 4 | 11 | | 2012 | 2 | 5 | 7 | | 2013 | 6 | 4 | 10 | | 2014 | 4 | 7 | 11 | | 2015 | 9 | 1 | 10 | | 2016 | 8 | 2 | 10 | | 2017 | 5 | 5 | 10 | | 2018 | 11 | 11 | 22 | | 2019 | 6 | 3 | 9 | | 2020 | 4 | 6 | 10 | | 2021 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2022 | 0 | 5 | 5 | | 2023 | 1 | 11 | 12 | | 2024 | 2 | 8 | 10 | | 2025 | 8 | 2 | 10 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Affect" by people in Profiles.
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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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Okun ML, Payne JL, Osborne LM, Feliciano L, Lac A. Effects of Using a Smart Bassinet on the Mental Health of Military-Affiliated Pregnant Women: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Sleep Health and Mood in Newly Expectant Military Mothers (SHINE) Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2025 Apr 10; 14:e66439.
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Alexander JD, Duffy KA, Freis SM, Chow SM, Friedman NP, Vrieze SI. Investigating the Magnitude and Persistence of COVID-19-Related Impacts on Affect and GPS-Derived Daily Mobility Patterns in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: Insights From a Smartphone-Based Intensive Longitudinal Study of Colorado-Based Youths From June 2016 to April 2022. J Med Internet Res. 2025 Mar 17; 27:e64965.
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Kracht CL, Tate A, de Brito JN, Trofholz A, Berge JM. Association between parental stress, coping, mood, and subsequent child physical activity and screen-time: an ecological momentary assessment study. BMC Public Health. 2025 Feb 22; 25(1):729.
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Finkelstein LB, Bright EE, Gu HCJ, Arch JJ. Optimizing the Use of Personal Values to Promote Medication Adherence: A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Affective and Behavioral Responses to Theory-Driven Domain Congruent Versus Incongruent Values Approaches. Ann Behav Med. 2025 Jan 04; 59(1).
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