"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.
| Descriptor ID |
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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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 1997 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 1998 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 1999 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| 2000 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2001 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 2002 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| 2003 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 2004 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2005 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2006 | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| 2007 | 8 | 5 | 13 |
| 2008 | 7 | 6 | 13 |
| 2009 | 7 | 6 | 13 |
| 2010 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 2011 | 9 | 6 | 15 |
| 2012 | 8 | 9 | 17 |
| 2013 | 8 | 6 | 14 |
| 2014 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 2015 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| 2016 | 7 | 4 | 11 |
| 2017 | 7 | 2 | 9 |
| 2018 | 6 | 6 | 12 |
| 2019 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2020 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2021 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2022 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2023 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2025 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2026 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Affect" by people in Profiles.
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Affective reactivity to a remote computer-based Trier Social Stress Test during a planned quit attempt: associations with short-term cigarette smoking lapse risk. Physiol Behav. 2026 Oct 15; 315:115444.
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Validating an aphasia-accessible ecological momentary assessment for daily depressive affect: A preliminary investigation. J Affect Disord. 2026 Aug 15; 407:121783.
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Reward-related neural activity after low doses of LSD in participants with depressed mood. J Psychopharmacol. 2026 Sep; 40(9):1368-1380.
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Intracerebral haemorrhage laterality and associations with mood and pain: a MISTIE III substudy. Stroke Vasc Neurol. 2025 12 23; 10(6):734-742.
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Depression symptom level associates with negative and positive affect and cognitive dysfunction during a smoking cessation quit attempt. J Affect Disord. 2026 Jan 01; 392:120237.
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Bidirectional Relationships Between Sleep Quality and Nicotine Vaping: Studying Young Adult e-cigarette Users in Real Time and Real Life. Nicotine Tob Res. 2025 Aug 22; 27(9):1534-1540.
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Effects of methamphetamine on human effort task performance are unrelated to its subjective effects. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2026 Jan; 243(1):199-209.
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Does increasing cigarette use stabilize mood? A real-time investigation spanning 6 years of adolescence and young adulthood. Addiction. 2025 Sep; 120(9):1816-1824.
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Real-Time Assessment of Alcohol Reward, Stimulation, and Negative Affect in Individuals With and Without Alcohol Use Disorder and Depressive Disorders. Am J Psychiatry. 2025 Feb 01; 182(2):187-197.
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Characterizing within-person variance in, and menstrual cycle associations with, event-related potentials associated with positive and negative valence systems: The reward positivity and the error-related negativity. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2024 12; 170:107183.