Word: mental
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Nothing is more morbidly intriguing, more chillingly compelling than an account of a malfunctioning mind, as medical writers have learned to their great profit. The victims of mental disease or brain damage are fascinating, not simply as exhibits in a neurological sideshow but also as stark demonstrations of how fragile reality can be. Most people agree, within limits, on the objective character of the world around them. Yet while the victims of mental disorders are certainly conscious and aware, their worlds are profoundly different from those of most of us. What can it possibly feel like, we wonder, to live...
...neurologists, psychologists and biologists have zeroed in more and more precisely on the physical causes of mental disorders, they have found themselves addressing a much deeper mystery, a set of interrelated conundrums probably as old as humanity: What, precisely, is the mind, the elusive entity where intelligence, decision making, perception, awareness and sense of self reside? Where is it located? How does it work? Does it arise from purely physical processes-pulses of electricity zapping from brain cell to brain cell, helped along their way by myriad complex chemicals? Or is it something beyond the merely physical-something ethereal that...
...mind malfunctions as Alzheimer's disease, depression, drug addiction, schizophrenia and traumatic brain damage -- research projects have multiplied dramatically. Over the past several years, Johns Hopkins has launched the Zanvyl Kreiger Mind/Brain Institute and Harvard has created the Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative. And at the urging of the National Institute of Mental Health and other organizations, President Bush declared the 1990s the Decade of the Brain...
Lest you suspect a shred of credibility behind this mental mentalite, let me reveal the real Satan behind the new world-conspiracy. Do you suspect the military-industrial complex? Or international Financiers? The Bolsheviks? Or is it the Jews...
...imagine, this misstatement has been very upsetting to people at Duke, and I would like to make a sincere apology to all members of the Duke community. Randolph Caitlin, M.D. Chief of Mental Health Services University Health Services...