Mental in sentence

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If someone's coming to talk to you about mental illness and anxiety and depression and thoughts of suicide, we need to respect that.

And we need to start reducing the stigma associated with mental health.

Companies are now starting to have mental health days.

It's not just physical sick days, it's mental health days.

So let me illustrate that step with a task which is called mental rotation.

Then, once they are done with the training, they come back a few days later and they are tested again on a similar type of mental rotation task.

These scans, the clinics say, can help prevent Alzheimer's disease, solve weight and addiction issues, overcome marital conflicts, and treat, of course, a variety of mental illnesses ranging from depression to anxiety to ADHD.

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.

And humans, by the way, are the only creatures capable of thinking about the future in this way, of projecting ourselves forward in time, and this mental time travel is just one more thing that fears have in common with storytelling.

In school, the military or even in a mental institution, once you make people do it, they enjoy it.

We do this little interrogation when we meet people to make a mental resume for them.

We know that most mental illnesses have a biological component that can be dealt with.

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.

Otherwise, we're going to keep pouring oil all over our mental engines and suffering the consequences.

Dopamine plays a number of important functions in the brain, including in attention, arousal, reward, and disorders of the dopamine system have been linked to a number of mental disorders including drug abuse, Parkinson's disease, and ADHD.

If we can do that, we may be able to cure these disorders without the unpleasant side effects, putting the oil back in our mental engines, just where it's needed.

If we have those facts at our mental fingertips, we're going to be able to make informed decisions.

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.

If you look at disability, as measured by the World Health Organization with something they call the Disability Adjusted Life Years, it's kind of a metric that nobody would think of except an economist, except it's one way of trying to capture what is lost in terms of disability from medical causes, and as you can see, virtually 30 percent of all disability from all medical causes can be attributed to mental disorders, neuropsychiatric syndromes.

What I've been talking to you about so far is mental disorders, diseases of the mind.

The response you're about to see is driven entirely by mental effort and has nothing to do with changes in lighting.

Our technology can listen, develop insights and make predictions about our mental and physical health just by analyzing the timing dynamics of our speech and language picked up by microphones.

Or authorities, being able to know the difference between someone having a mental health crisis and a different type of aggression, and responding accordingly.

Or I think of Cynthia Thomas, a really loyal army daughter and army wife, who, as she saw her friends and relations coming back from the Iraq War, was so shocked by their mental condition and the refusal of the military to recognize and acknowledge post-traumatic stress syndrome that she set up a cafe in the middle of a military town to give them legal, psychological and medical assistance.

I dream of a day when our patients can shed their excess pounds and cure themselves of insulin resistance, because as medical professionals, we've shed our excess mental baggage and cured ourselves of new idea resistance sufficiently to go back to our original ideals: open minds, the courage to throw out yesterday's ideas when they don't appear to be working, and the understanding that scientific truth isn't final, but constantly evolving.

Our sleeping and waking cycle is a delicate balance, and one that’s vital to maintain for our physical and mental wellbeing.

One and the same event has a level of description where it's neurobiological, and another level of description where it's mental, and that's a single event, and that's how nature works.

Your mental states are identical with your behavior?

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