Sentence examples for mental abnormality from inspiring English sources

In his judgement, Justice Lai noted that Took had no history of mental abnormality, the behaviour the defence cited was "not necessarily abnormal" and the murder was "clearly the product of a cold and calculating mind".

Kansas had argued that proof of dangerousness, coupled with a mental abnormality, was sufficient.

It presents me as a young man living a full, meaningful life, despite his mental abnormality.

To be detained, inmates must have a psychiatric illness or "mental abnormality" — typically sexual in nature — that renders them out of control.

The sole issue at his trial in 1981 was whether or not his responsibility for the killings was diminished by mental abnormality.

It authorizes the detention of a sex offender with a "mental abnormality" or "personality disorder" who is judged likely to commit another offense if not confined.

Autopsy Disclosed No. Mental Abnormalities -- Body Buried in Acid in the Prison Cemetery.

Hartnup disease is a disorder of amino acid transport in the intestines and kidneys; ataxia, a photosensitive rash, and mental abnormalities are the main symptoms.

Her sensitive understanding of mental abnormalities approaches that of a skilled clinician, and her dexterous reshaping of philisophical concepts to elucidate these is a delight to follow.

"Hide and Seek" studies the psychology of a deaf person, and there are many other characters with unusual physical or mental abnormalities in many of Collins's novels -- the most obvious being the sleepwalking of Franklin Blake in "The Moonstone".

A growing body of studies suggests that neurological and mental abnormalities foster conformity to norms of rationality that are widely endorsed in economics and psychology, whereas normality stands in the way of rationality thus defined.