(n.) Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium.
(n.) Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most striking differences were observed on the factors: Psychopathic deviation, Mania, Schizophrenia greater than controls and social introversion lower than controls.
(2) The patients had met Research Diagnostic Criteria for major depressive episode and had no evidence of schizophrenia or mania.
(3) There was a fall of mean AVP excretion during mania, the magnitude of the fall being related to the increase of water throughput.
(4) Despite the presence of some side effects, such as easily controlled seizures (9%) and transient mania (6%), the results of this investigation support the use of cingulotomy as a potentially effective treatment for patients with severe and disabling obsessive-compulsive disorder.
(5) The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of lithium, a drug which is now used rather widely in the treatment of acute mania and the prophylaxis of manic-depressive bipolar disorders, on the pituitary-gonadal function in the laboratory rat.
(6) The authors present a case of coexisting obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and bipolar affective disorder in which the obsessive-compulsive symptoms disappeared during episodes of mania and reappeared during periods of depression.
(7) CSF CRH levels in mania, simple dementia, or anxiety or somatization disorder were not significantly different from the controls.
(8) The game was one of many celebrations around the country as Russia was gripped with Putin birthday mania on Wednesday.
(9) We suggest that a fundamental reconceptualization of both mania and depression as overactivated neural systems (either excitatory or inhibitory) could facilitate this conceptualization.
(10) Depression is a result of abnormalities lowering the normal steady-state concentration of methylbarinine, whereas mania results from an abnormal elevation of methylbarinine.
(11) Organic brain performance deficits and disturbances of sexual function are seen with both types of alcoholic jealousy mania.
(12) Mania usually represents one extreme of recurrent affective illness in patients with a genetic predisposition.
(13) Eight of them were schizophrenia, one was paranoid, and one was mania.
(14) Antidepressant drugs are effective in the acute treatment and prevention of depression only, and can even precipitate hypomanic or manic "switches," or "rapid cycling" between mania and depression.
(15) Because of the practical difficulties which arise in studying manic patients, a reproducible model for mania using human subjects would be a valuable adjunct to research in this condition.
(16) (3) 64 of the 908 patients (7.0%) admitted for depression switched to hypomania or mania.
(17) To evaluate the possible abnormality in MAO activity in affective disorders, blood platelet samples were obtained from 80 patients with mania and depression.
(18) Mixed mania (i.e., a manic syndrome accompanied by depressive symptoms) and its response to long-term preventive drug treatment was studied as part of a larger NIMH collaborative study.
(19) It's the kind of TV that makes for a wipe-your-weekend-plans box set: the ending of every crack-fix of an episode had me twitchily reaching for the remote to a muttered internal monologue of: "Next one, next one, now, now…" Danes carries the series as the bipolar CIA agent Carrie Mathison, whose furious vigilance is hard to distinguish from pathological mania as she investigates, and ultimately falls for, Sergeant Brody (Damian Lewis), a Marine who may or may not be a terrorist after eight years held captive by al-Qaida.
(20) The authors present a case of mania associated with the prolonged ingestion of large doses of L-dopa.
Manila
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Manilla
Example Sentences:
(1) The Metro-Manila Developmental Screening Test (MMDST) is a Philippine version of the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) for which norms were developed in 1980 on 6006 Filipino children.
(2) Read more Imelda Marcos returned to Manila in 1991 after her husband died in Honolulu and fought off several corruption cases, including one that could have seen her jailed for up to 50 years.
(3) Riyadh recently rejected demands from Manila for medical insurance for maids and for information on employers to be supplied before their departure.
(4) The defiant Philippine leader has responded to critics with a string of outbursts, including labelling the US ambassador to Manila a “gay son of a whore” , telling the Catholic church “don’t fuck with me” , and accusing the UN of issuing “shitting” statements about his anti-drugs policies.
(5) The first study examined the performance of 911 children, with histories of perinatal risk events, on a restandardized Philippine (Metro-Manila) version of the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) which was developed in 1980.
(6) After meeting the summit host, the president of the Philippines, Obama said the US and Manila had agreed on the need for “bold steps to lower tensions, including pledging to halt reclamation, new construction and militarisation of disputed islands in the South China Sea”.
(7) Speaking in Manila, Obama said the goal of the new round of sanctions was to change the Russian calculation in its alleged sponsorship of separatists in Ukraine.
(8) It also sent a group of delegates to the Ist Asian Congress of Pediatrics, organized by the Association of Pediatric Societies in South East Asian Region (APSSEAR), held in Manila in 1974.
(9) There is therefore an "urban bias" of food supply to Metro Manila, that is, there is a much higher demand capacity for Metro Manila to draw food supply because of its higher income level and bigger population.
(10) A compelling new documentary, The Thrilla in Manila, is unflinching in the way it documents the systematic racial abuse Ali directed against Frazier for the next five years - culminating in the final fight of their epic trilogy in 1975.
(11) Siaron’s drug use (though his partner forcefully denies that he was dealing) while pedalling passengers around the packed streets of Manila should offend, or surprise, nobody.
(12) So it’s understandable that the Australian prime minister couldn’t quite take in what the US president said to him as journalists filed into the American purpose-built venue for bilateral meetings and other summit business on a balmy Tuesday evening at Apec in Manila.
(13) A jeepney in Manila: US military 4x4s left over from world war II have been converted, often flamboyantly, into the most popular form of transport in the city.
(14) In some cases the devastation has been total," the cabinet secretary, Rene Almendras, told reporters in Manila.
(15) As we swapped experiences with similar projects focusing on Manila, Mexico City and Dhaka, we began to see ourselves as part of a bigger project, ensuring that cities which rely on informal transport systems are part of the technological revolution that is brewing around information and transit.
(16) On average, women in Baltimore breastfed less often but for longer at each feed than women in Manila, and the mean times until ovulation were 27 and 38 weeks post partum.
(17) The youth of Manila is talented and dedicated to making the city once again worthy of its “Distinguished and Ever Loyal” monicker.
(18) His willingness to fight in such far-flung locales as Zaire, Manila, and Malaysia signalled a shift away from superpower dominance towards a growing awareness of the importance of the developing world.
(19) But the brutal conflict of the Thrilla in Manila is the one indelibly etched into boxing history.
(20) From May 1988 to May 1990, a prospective autopsy study was performed in patients who died at the Philippine General Hospital in Manila, Philippines.