Thomas, he said, appeared to have had a psychotic episode the night he clashed with police, because only someone with "some kind of mental malfunction" would take on six police officers.
Humans are developing in a co-constructive way whereby the biological-genetic interface interacts with the cultural setting to form mind and brain and with it the potential for mental malfunctioning.
We're blessed to have our limbs (regardless of their malfunctions), mental well-being, vision, sense of taste and smell, and our ability to hear.
Harvesting our experiences, good and bad, our bodies collect it all, and the energy created can manifest in ways that aren't easily identified as a symptom of trauma, but rather, as unexplained mental and medical malfunctions.
Look into medical insurance that covers mental illness, brain malfunctions.
Wakefield, for instance, thinks some psychiatric diagnoses flout our intuitions by attributing disorder on the basis of behavior alone without looking for malfunctioning mental mechanisms (1997a).
Lead exposure is estimated to account for up to 3%% of the human burden of disease attributable to controllable environmental risk factors, and children are particularly vulnerable to the detrimental health impacts, including cognitive impairment, anemia, kidney malfunction, mental retardation, and cardiovascular disease (ATSDR 2007; Milovantseva and Ogunseitan 2011; Saleh and Gupta 2012).
On the other hand, our highly evolved brains are prone to serious malfunctions such as mental illness and dementia.
But an examination of the 20 largest regions that have evolved in this way shows that they include several genes associated with cognitive ability and whose malfunction causes serious mental problems.
The previous version of the DSM assumed that each diagnosis represented malfunction in some mental, physical or behavioural trait or capacity (DSM-IV-TR, xxi).
So attempts to break down that process in healthy people could, eventually, shed some light on the way it malfunctions during periods of mental illness.
