Is a single mood point each day sufficient to chart mood disorders?
Yes. Using ChronoRecord, every day the patient enters a single point that best describes the overall mood for the previous 24 hours. Validation studies have shown that entering a single point correlates with a clinicians objective rating of mood and adequately describes an individuals mood in the previous 24 hours. Over time, longitudinal analysis of these data points will display the pattern of the patients mood disorder. All variants of mood disorders, including rapid cycling, can be tracked. Mood is a very complex phenomenon. Mood is continuously modulated by a myriad of interlaced internal brain systems and external stimuli. Additionally mood, like sleep, follows a Circadian rhythm. In all humans there is a predictable diurnal rhythm in mood and energy as we cycle from high activity while awake to rest and recovery during nighttime sleep. If multiple points for mood were collected within each 24-hour period, these circadian variations would cloud an objective understanding of the p
