affective

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"Targeting these specific neural circuits could become an effective and more localized strategy to treat affective disorders," Lerma concludes.

From Science Daily • Nov. 4, 2025

The inquest heard that Maria Morris, who worked as a teaching assistant, had bi-polar affective disorder.

From BBC • Oct. 14, 2025

Are you in any of the affective areas?

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2025

She has a deep understanding of and a postmodern comfort with cognitive dissonance, with lyrics that describe the affective landscape of the gap between our gestures and expectations.

From Salon • Nov. 29, 2024

But people live also in the realm of the affective and aesthetic—that's why they bury bodies and sometimes dig them up and pour love potions on them.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann