Example collocations logo

Illness in sentence

785 examples of Illness in a sentence

One in four people suffer from some sort of mental illness, so if it was one, two, three, four, it's you, sir.
If someone's coming to talk to you about mental illness and anxiety and depression and thoughts of suicide, we need to respect that.
The broad consensus in neuroscience is that we can't yet diagnose mental illness from a single brain scan.
I am more excited than most people, as a neuroscientist, about the potential for neuroscience to treat mental illness and even maybe to make us better and smarter.
I started using a wheelchair 16 years ago when an extended illness changed the way I could access the world.
Do you know anybody in your family who had a difficult situation, an illness, and they overcame it?
So raise your hand if you know someone in your immediate family or circle of friends who suffers from some form of mental illness.
And raise your hand if you think that basic research on fruit flies has anything to do with understanding mental illness in humans.
Now, when we talk about suicide, there is also a medical contribution here, because 90 percent of suicides are related to a mental illness: depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anorexia, borderline personality.
In their final years, Jim and Shirley faced cancers, fractures, infections, neurological illness.
Dying from cancer and dying from neurological illness are different.
How did an illness become an identity?
I had thought of deafness entirely as an illness: those poor people, they couldn't hear, they lacked hearing, and what could we do for them?
And I thought, "Here I had been working for years on a book about how much meaning people had found in the experience of parenting children who were disabled, and I didn't want to join their number because what I was encountering was an idea of illness."
And like all parents since the dawn of time, I wanted to protect my child from illness.
And I wanted, also, to protect myself from illness.
And yet, I knew from the work I had done that if he had any of the things we were about to start testing for, that those would ultimately be his identity, and if they were his identity, they would become my identity, that that illness was going to take a very different shape as it unfolded.
Epileptic seizures also come in a large variety of size, and when the brain goes to a super-critical state, you have dragon-kings which have a degree of predictability and this can help the patient to deal with this illness.
It's a developing-world illness, and yet, the picture you see behind is in an Aboriginal community in the late 1990s, where 95 percent of school-aged kids had active trachoma in their eyes, doing damage.
Later we found the leading cause of illness and death in this particular region is through respiratory failure.
If obesity is nothing more than a proxy for metabolic illness, what good does it do us to punish those with the proxy?
Well, of course, we use Thomas Edison's light bulb to invade the night, and we occupied the dark, and in the process of this occupation, we've treated sleep as an illness, almost.
At most now, I suppose, we tolerate the need for sleep, and at worst perhaps many of us think of sleep as an illness that needs some sort of a cure.
So for the last few minutes, what I want to do is change gears and talk about some really new, breaking areas of neuroscience, which is the association between mental health, mental illness and sleep disruption.
We've known for 130 years that in severe mental illness, there is always, always sleep disruption, but it's been largely ignored.
And the really exciting news is that mental illness and sleep are not simply associated, but they are physically linked within the brain.
The first was that sleep disruption actually precedes certain types of mental illness, and we've shown that in those young individuals who are at high risk of developing bipolar disorder, they already have a sleep abnormality prior to any clinical diagnosis of bipolar.
The other bit of data was that sleep disruption may actually exacerbate, make worse, the mental illness state.
In terms of the neuroscience, by understanding these two systems, we're really beginning to understand how both sleep and mental illness are generated and regulated within the brain.
Stabilize sleep in those individuals who are vulnerable, we can certainly make them healthier, but also alleviate some of the appalling symptoms of mental illness.
BackNext