The EFEC model assumes that cortical and subcortical areas are not in competition but integrate information to arrive at adaptive representations of social knowledge and moral motivations. A depiction of the key structures is reproduced in this paper but linked more specifically to mood disorders.

These mood states can be distinguished when using 3 dimensions (self-worth, action tendency (approach vs. withdrawal) and valence (positive vs. negative).

A model of mood states and neurocognitive mechanisms published: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

For anyone interested in linking classical psychopathology and phenomenology of symptoms (Jaspers, Kraepelin) in mood disorders, with modern symptom network analyses and cognitive neuroscience,