The phrase "mental fluctuations" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe variations or changes in one's mental state or thought processes.
Example: "During meditation, I often experience mental fluctuations that make it difficult to maintain focus."
Alternatives: "cognitive shifts" or "mental variations."
Mental health fluctuations affect us all, some more than others.
Acute change in the patient´s mental status, and fluctuation of any disturbance, will be ascertained through informant history from nursing staff and carers and also derived from clinical notes.
Frequently misdiagnosed, DLB is the second most common neurodegenerative dementia after Alzheimer's and causes fluctuations in mental status, hallucinations and impairment of motor function.
Occurrence of sudden fluctuations in mental status unexplained by modification of sedative infusion rate, occurrence of focal neurological sign, seizure(s) and/or neck stiffness should prompt the physician to consider neuroimaging, EEG and/or lumbar puncture to rule out a direct central nervous system infection.
Although routine physical and laboratory tests were normal, the appearance of fluctuations in mental status combined with repeated generalized seizures, results of spinal fluid examination with an elevated number of lymphoid cells, and slow activity in EEG initially led to a diagnosis of suspected limbic encephalitis.
Dr. Harvey Brenner is a longtime student of the correlations between economic fluctuations and mental and physical health.
It clinically manifests as both a movement disorder, characterized by tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia and postural instability and a distinct form of cognitive impairment, characterized by visuospatial impairment and fluctuations in mental state [ 51, 52].
85 Sleep deprivation can result in delirium-like symptoms, such as inattention and fluctuations in mental capacity; however, it is still unclear whether sleep disruption in the ICU is a cause, consequence, or comorbidity of delirium.
Finally, despite our efforts to control for a wide range of covariates, we do not have information about circumstances that may occur in the period from baseline to year of divorce, such as the birth of (more) children, the death of relatives, changes in social support, changes in socioeconomic status, fluctuations in mental health and so on.
