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This first book in a three-volume series analyzes the meaning of 4,500 historical illness terms.
"It's a significant health problem". In other words, add SAD to the list of mental illness terms that shouldn't be used nonchalantly.
This study set out to compare cerebral activation in schizophrenia patients versus controls during a self-evaluation task which included positive and negative traits as well as mental and physical illness terms.
This was articulated in different ways by Practitioner Services and GP participants; the first describing how patients interacted but not explaining behaviour in mental illness terms, the second providing mental health diagnoses.
While hypoactivation (in relation to mental illness traits) was noted, so too was bilateral inferior parietal (plus somatosensory cortex and ACC) hyper-activation in relation to physical illness terms which could plausibly be interpreted as correlating with 'somatic insight'.
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Whatever answers are given, they can be only partial answers since the term recovery is an illness term.
20 Symptom seriousness was also downplayed when it was attributed to the ageing process rather than illness (termed the 'age heuristic').
The BLAM lab studies the symptoms of mental illness in terms of formal learning theory.
Rarely does anyone think to ask those with mental illness what terms they would choose to describe themselves.
Furthermore, distinguishing between physical and mental illness in terms of symptoms may give counterintuitive results.
This was done to map the meanings that students gave to mental illness in terms of their relative importance.
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