(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.
Psychosis
Definition:
(n.) Any vital action or activity.
(n.) A disease of the mind; especially, a functional mental disorder, that is, one unattended with evident organic changes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The issue of the Schizophrenia Bulletin is devoted to articles representing this full range of conceptual and empirical work on first-episode psychosis.
(2) All patients with puerperal psychosis admitted to the Royal Edinburgh Hospital within 90 days of childbirth during the periods 1880-90 and 1971-80 were compared.
(3) Furthermore, they seem to suggest that most cases of cycloid psychosis are not variants of either schizophrenia or major affective disorders.
(4) However, these proskinetic symptoms appeared to be a character trait of an infantile personality rather than a condition following as a consequence of psychosis.
(5) An arrest of a depressive syndrome in manic-depressive psychosis in old age can be attained by an introduction of 150-200 mg of azafen daily.
(6) Cocaine produces simple hallucinations, PCP can produce complex hallucinations analogous to a paranoid psychosis, while LSD produces a combination of hallucinations, pseudohallucinations and illusions.
(7) Other possible adverse effects--such as gastrointestinal disorders, orthostatic hypotension, levodopa-induced psychosis, sleep disturbances or parasomnias, or drug interactions--also require carefully monitored individual treatment.
(8) They included patients with Alzheimer's, Huntington's, dementia and psychosis, the report said.
(9) Happiness psychosis, because of the ecstatic emotions associated therewith, often involves a direct drive to do artistic work.
(10) It is also possible for patients with underlying psychosis to present first to the dental surgeon for jaw correction.
(11) Common alcohol-related complications requiring treatment include: (1) clinicopathologic disorders, often associated with the gastroenterologic or cardiorespiratory systems, including alcoholic cirrhosis, (2) peripheral myoneural effects, (3) neuropsychiatric complications (delirium tremens, acute alcoholic hallucinosis, Korsakoff's psychosis, alcoholic dementia), and (4) psychosocial disability.
(12) By contrast, in Korsakoff's psychosis, posterior temporal rCBF was maintained, although there was a trend to reduced tracer uptake in other cortical areas.
(13) The organic psychosis patients had a significantly lower mean B12 than the others, and were over-represented among the low B12 group.
(14) Tardive dyskinesia may arise from neostriatal supersensitivity and supersensitivity psychosis may arise from mesolimbic supersensitivity in schizophrenics chronically treated with neuroleptics.
(15) A behavioral observation scale (Virginia Polydipsia Scale; VPS) for monitoring drinking patterns was developed and its reliability tested during 25 hours of tandem ratings among six patients with the syndrome of psychosis, intermittent hyponatremia, and polydipsia (PIPS).
(16) Higher dosages given to 47 patients did not lead to greater improvement in measures of psychosis, but did produce slightly greater declines in measures of hostility.
(17) Three family members intoxicated with methyl bromide presented with a variety of neuropsychiatric manifestations including coma, severe status epilepticus, hyporeflexia, and acute psychosis.
(18) Forty-three index subjects with a previous history of psychosis or severe depression were compared with 45 pregnant control subjects without any previous psychiatric disorder.
(19) PCP-induced psychosis also uniquely incorporates the formal thought disorder and neuropsychological deficits associated with schizophrenia.
(20) Twenty patients suffering from manic depressive psychosis were interviewed about the prodromes to both manic and depressive episodes.