Sentence examples for mental rigidity from inspiring English sources

"I have a mental rigidity, and if symmetry is missing I'm not happy," Mr. Gerosa said.

Hitler had "the typical premorbid personality of parkinsonian patients with uncorrectable mental rigidity, extreme inflexibility and insupportable pedantry".

Symptoms of FTD include personality changes, mental rigidity, decreased language, stereotyped behavior, hyperorality, and decreased ability to perform activities of daily living.

While bipolar-type mood swings were characteristic of the poet's creative cycle, severe mental illness was characterised by a lack of flexibility, a mental rigidity, quite the opposite of the 'chameleon self' that poetry required.

But there is a longstanding tradition, perhaps unjust, of making fun of engineers for precisely the characteristic that tripped Mr Akin up this week: mental rigidity.Mr Akin got himself into trouble because he was faced with a moral quandary.

My duties for the week: help restore ancient frescoes, hand-roll pasta and – as I would soon learn – let go of my mental rigidity in favour of experiencing a slower-paced way of life.

I'm talking about low intelligence, lack of mental ability, cognitive rigidity.

Objective: To suggest guidelines for the prevention, recognition, and management of a life-threatening syndrome (high fever, altered mental status, profound muscular rigidity that sometimes progressed to fatal rhabdomyolysis) in patients who experience the abrupt withdrawal of intrathecal baclofen (ITB) therapy.

In the following days, high fevers, altered mental status, and nuchal rigidity without focal neurologic deficits developed.

He reported no nuchal rigidity or mental status changes, although family members described him as intermittently confused.

The patients were closely screened for the following loxapine side effects: dyskinesia, extrapyramidal syndrome, seizure, neuroleptic malignant syndrome (defined by elevation of central temperature to >38°C, muscular rigidity, altered mental status, and autonomic dysfunction, such as unstable blood pressure or heart rate), and urinary retention.