Sentence examples for disorder of mind from inspiring English sources
In arguing that neurological illnesses become inseparable from the selves they inhabit, Hustvedt glosses over the situations and reactions of those who serve: the parents, spouses and siblings whose lives are transformed by tending to a loved one's disorder of mind or brain or both.
The stipulation of possession of mental capacity was consistent with the decision being autonomous, and consistent with the values of the individual, with an absence of a disorder of mind or brain that could influence the decision-making process.
The Act makes it clear that if there is no demonstrable disorder of mind or brain then the patient is free to make whatever decision they choose regardless of whether this is wise, unwise or no decision is made at all.
My stammering speech betrays to all the disorder of my mind; my sighs discover me, and your name is ever on my lips.
This book, the newest version of which will hit the shops on May 22nd (see article), contains the association's thinking on what constitutes a disorder of the mind.
The Elizabethan picture is confusing, with melancholia being recognised as a fashionable pose, a disorder of the mind, a sign of genius and a precursor of psychosis, but it was hardly more diversely understood than it has been since modernity offered us psychoanalytical, physicalist and cognitive versions of the experience of what is now officially called "major depressive disorder".
If your own sense of fairness is disrupted frequently enough, you'll end up stupefied like I did with an acute case of work-induced Political Misery Syndrome (PMS) -- an epidemic disorder of the mind most frequently found in the female population.
Even more electrifying, stimulation techniques such as TMS may yet prove to be an effective therapy for all kinds of disorders of brain and mind.
This observation challenges the traditional distinction between disorders of the mind and disorders of the brain, and provides fresh support for a new conceptual framework in which both neurological and psychiatric disease are considered 'disorders of the nervous system'.
