There can be no conclusive diagnosis but Van Gogh suffered from bouts of depression and mental paralysis that periodically crippled him.
A sort of mental paralysis grips many of us on the left, does it not, when we encounter the "immigration" question in conversations about UK politics?
That may be a good debating tactic, but it leads to mental paralysis: when everything matters, nothing matters.The stormy response to a recent column about an OSCE resolution equating Stalin and Hitler highlights the issue.
The prevailing psychological explanation for these kinds of behaviours – passivity, mental paralysis or simply carrying on as normal in the face of a crisis – is that they are caused by a failure to adapt to a sudden change in the environment.
I got into this project by requesting a screener in June and found myself mired in a kind of mental paralysis, brought on by my own biases and perceived biases of the scriptwriter.
We performed a relatively objective assessment of mental nerve paralysis by applying the modified SW perception test reported by Semmes and Weinstein [11, 12].
Tay-Sachs, first described in the 1880's, causes progressive mental deterioration, blindness, paralysis, epileptic seizures and death, usually before age 5.
In Tay-Sachs, a buildup of fatty substances in the brain and other tissues leads to blindness, paralysis, mental retardation and death.
Survivors of meningococcal disease may experience debilitating neurological side effects including speech disorders, mental retardation and paralysis.
While adults can be severely impacted by methylmercury exposure, effects on the developing fetus are devastating, and can result in microcephaly, cerebropalsy, seizures, mental retardation, blindness, paralysis, and other very severe consequences.
Nonetheless, prolonged and acute intake of diet containing cyanogen derivatives could lead to death; exacerbate goitre, cretinism in iodine deficient regions, mental confusion, irreversible paralysis of legs, and ultimately the neurological disorder of Konzo [ 3, 39, 40].
