Number of mood disorder patients rises

There has been a modest increase in treatment of people for mood disorder, a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in emotion, energy and activity levels, the National Health Insurance Corp. said recently.

According to its analysis of patients between 2006 and 2010, the number of people treated for mood disorder marked 684,793 in 2010 from 609,607 in 2006. Women outnumbered men by about ...