(a.) Of or pertaining to the chin; genian; as, the mental nerve; the mental region.
(n.) A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the mind; intellectual; as, mental faculties; mental operations, conditions, or exercise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Low birth weight, short stature, and mental retardation were common features in the four known patients with r(8).
(2) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
(3) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
(4) Instead of later renal failure and, of course, mental retardation, it was the histological features of the fetus eyes which permit to diagnose and exhibit both congenital cataract and irido-corneal angle dysgenesis.
(5) What constitutes a "mental disorder" for purposes of the insanity defense?
(6) The physicians did diagnose and treat a number of patients with mental symptoms who were not identified by the DIS.
(7) This paper describes the demographic, clinical, and psychosocial characteristics of a sample of chronically mentally ill clients at a large comprehensive community mental health center.
(8) Existing mental health and criminal justice systems provide social control for some of these dangerous individuals, but may be inadequate to deal with those mentally disordered offenders who were not found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI).
(9) This new way of thinking is reflected in the 1992 AAMR definition of what mental retardation is (Luckasson et al., 1992).
(10) Changing conditions call for each Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) to develop a survival strategy based on its own standards and values.
(11) Greater knowledge about these disorders and closer working relationships with mental health specialists should lead to decreased morbidity and mortality.
(12) A 4-year prospective study was carried out on 53 chronically mentally ill patients living in a differentiated complementary residential complex.
(13) Governmental officials as well as medical scientists in Taiwan have worked hard in recent years to develop and to implement various measures, such as prenatal diagnosis and neonatal screening, to lower the incidence of hereditary diseases and mental retardation in the population.
(14) The author describes the utilization review process, utilization patterns, and service cost of the Mental Health Service of the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York (HIP).
(15) The Global Assessment Scale was used by multiple clinicians to rate 108 chronically mentally ill outpatients for 18 months.
(16) In order to map the mental state in the early puerperium the authors gave to a group of 100 women for five days after delivery Lüscher's colour test.
(17) In an exceptionally rare turn, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, a panel appointed by the governor that is almost always hardline on executions, recommended that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison because of his mental illness.
(18) The attitude towards drug trials was negative in 79% of the personnel, in contrast to 71% positive in three Swedish mental hospitals.
(19) Care for black and minority ethnic communities is seen as a "major faultline in mental health".
(20) What we see from those opposite and we see in this chamber every day is the 'born to rule mentality' of those opposite.
Psychophysics
Definition:
(n.) The science of the connection between nerve action and consciousness; the science which treats of the relations of the psychical and physical in their conjoint operation in man; the doctrine of the relation of function or dependence between body and soul.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reports of rod-dominated psychophysical spectral sensitivity from the deprived eye of monocularly lid-sutured (MD) monkeys are intriguing but difficult to reconcile with the absence of any reported deprivation effects in retina.
(2) Questionnaires and psychophysical testing have been used to quantify dyspnea, but there is variability in dyspnea grade from these methods.
(3) An attempt is made to relate the results of auditory psychophysics to the physiology of the hearing mechanism.
(4) Psychophysical results on human colour matching (Stiles & Burch, 1955; Stiles & Burch, 1959) were well predicted from the spectral sensitivities of the monkey cones.
(5) Coombs's theory of data (1952, 1964) and his unfolding theory of preferential choice (1950, 1964) provided the conceptualization of metacognition in this psychophysical task context.
(6) The psychophysical relationships between the objective and subjective magnitudes of lung volume were tested during air breathing and at two levels of hypercapnia (breathing 4% and 6% CO2 in oxygen).
(7) Perimetry is a subjective psychophysical sensory examination.
(8) The results of ecological studies appear to be more consistent that those dealing with "specific" psychosomatic disorders and suggest that man has a general psychophysical propensity to disease.
(9) The overall score obtained for all answers informed about the total psychophysical load.
(10) In the skin regions of high thresholds, on the other hand, practically all psychophysical thresholds were higher than the thresholds of the most sensitive afferent units.
(11) Orientation bandwidths of psychophysical channels in the human visual system were inferred from contrast thresholds for a special class of polar-separable, two-dimensional patterns.
(12) Predictions of the model are compared with recently obtained psychophysical data.
(13) The psychophysical methods of magnitude estimation and cross-modal matching were used on a group of 10 men (M age = 19.6 yr.) and 10 women (M age = 20.2 yr.).
(14) A psychophysical scaling procedure confirmed that the constraints generated tone sequences bearing degrees of perceptual similarity to "real" melodies.
(15) Thus, if intensity coding is based on localized firing rate, this fundamental psychophysical behavior does not result solely from peripheral processes.
(16) In psychophysics as well as in sensory physiology, the response amplitude R is often a power function of the stimulus intensity S over a wide range of S (i.e.
(17) Most studies that measured the magnitude of biomechanical, physiological and psychophysical stresses attempted to define peak work-loads.
(18) This fact, in conjunction with some recent psychophysical findings (Lansford and Baker effect) leads to infer that interocular EOG influences are mediated by other mechanisms, in addition to spread across facial tissues.
(19) The use of psychophysical methods for air pollution applications is illustrated by two studies on effects on sensory functions in smokers and passive smokers.
(20) The reliability coefficients for both the psychophysical variables--measured on Borg's CR-10 scale--and heart rate were high.