(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.
Munia
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In the subtropical finch, spotted munia (Lonchura punctulata), circanual rhythms (of gonads, fattening, feeding) have been demonstrated in an information-free environment of continuous illumination (LL), rendering it an ideal model for research on the physiology of the circannual clock.
(2) Daily injection of L-dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-DOPA, a dopamine precursor) given 12 hr after 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP, a serotonin precursor) stimulated testicular growth and body weight increase in the spotted munia Lonchura punctulata.
(3) Four doses of melatonin were administered intramuscularly over 30 days in separate groups of intact adult male Lal munia, Estrilda amandava, during mid-day (1300 hr) and mid-night (0100 hr) in separate sets during the month of August (late progressive phase), and their effects were studied on the body weight, gonadal and thyroidal activities, and luteinizing hormone (LH)-dependent plumage and beak pigmentation.
(4) If the endogenous circadian rhythm in perch-hopping can be taken to reflect the circadian clock mechanism associated with gonadal functioning, present results suggest that circannual rhythm of reproduction in spotted munia is independent of circadian events.
(5) neoformans has been persistently demonstrated in the saprobic environment of caged munia birds at a local zoological garden.
(6) It is suggested that the role of munia birds should be further investigated to understand the ecology of this important human pathogen.