(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.
Passion
Definition:
(n.) A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross.
(n.) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; -- opposed to action.
(n.) Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
(n.) The state of the mind when it is powerfully acted upon and influenced by something external to itself; the state of any particular faculty which, under such conditions, becomes extremely sensitive or uncontrollably excited; any emotion or sentiment (specifically, love or anger) in a state of abnormal or controlling activity; an extreme or inordinate desire; also, the capacity or susceptibility of being so affected; as, to be in a passion; the passions of love, hate, jealously, wrath, ambition, avarice, fear, etc.; a passion for war, or for drink; an orator should have passion as well as rhetorical skill.
(n.) Disorder of the mind; madness.
(n.) Passion week. See Passion week, below.
(v. t.) To give a passionate character to.
(v. i.) To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
Example Sentences:
(1) He spoke words of power and depth and passion – and he spoke with a gesture, too.
(2) Amid the passionate discussion at the NDA meeting, the two women began to develop a plan.
(3) • Harriet Harman gives a frank interview about the olden days, in which she reveals a passionate affair with Arthur Scargill.
(4) Many leave banking after three to five years, not because they are 'worn out', but because now they have financial security to start their own business or go on to advocate for a cause they are passionate about or buy a small cottage in the West Country for the rest of their lives."
(5) After the event, McCray praised the duchess on Twitter for her passion on issues of mental health and early childhood development, saying “her warmth and passion for the cause was infectious”.
(6) Audiences were disappointed that the love scenes between Taylor and Burton that had been the talk of modern Rome were not repeated with so much passion in those of ancient Rome.
(7) It is worth it, however, because I passionately believe in what social workers do, and I want to share that passion as widely as I can.
(8) But somewhere along the way, his passion for good, fresh food – admirable and infectious in every respect – appears to have transformed into evangelical life-coaching.
(9) What we do know is that we cannot and will not see this decision as a vote of no confidence, and that we will find a way to continue through our own passion and dedication to making theatre that represents the dispossessed, tells stories of the injustices of our world and changes lives.
(10) We have never inspired passion, just a little bit of fear and respect.
(11) Trying to discourage me from my passion is inhuman – it’s not possible!” The crowd cheered and applauded.
(12) Despite his ill health, Abbado's musical passion was in evidence until the very end, friends said.
(13) What he didn’t foresee was that getting to know people more intimately would result in his using portraits – more than 130 so far – to raise awareness of the plight of chronic homelessness generally or that he would become passionately vocal about what has been an entrenched issue for a number of US cities for decades.
(14) His greatest passion on the trek up, apart from finding a 3G signal and playing rap music from a speaker on the back of his pack, was playing Tigers and Goats, a local version of chess, taking on all-comers – climbers, Sherpas, trekkers, random elderly porters passing through the lodges.
(15) "I have such passion for what I do that I can't see it as bleak.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Barclays This season LifeSkills created with Barclays have teamed up with Tinie Tempah and the Premier League to give young people the chance to fulfil their passions and work at a range of famous football clubs and music venues.
(17) That in turn led to Pratchett’s own passionate involvement with the Orangutan Foundation.
(18) Her maiden speech in parliament celebrated the diversity of her beloved Yorkshire constituency, and passionately made the case that there is more that unites us than divides us.
(19) Twombly's work sold for millions and ignited the passions of followers.
(20) There is no better political passion killer than Labour's Zero-Based Review .