Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another 5-to-4 decision, the court ruled that a person acquitted of a criminal act by reason of insanity may be held in a mental hospital for longer than the time he might have served in prison if he had been convicted. The case involved Michael Jones, who was arrested in Washington, D.C., for attempted shoplifting, a misdemeanor that carries a maximum sentence of one year. He pleaded insanity and has been in a mental hospital since 1976. To win release under the city's law, either the hospital must certify that Jones is cured or he must...
...relentlessness of Alzheimer's disease makes it a nightmare for families of the patients. The affliction's rising incidence threatens to make it a nightmare for the country at large. By far the leading cause of mental deterioration among the elderly, AD affects between 5% and 10% of all people over 65. Among them: former Movie Star Rita Hayworth, 64. Because most AD patients must eventually be placed in institutions, the disease puts tremendous demands on the nation's health-care resources. Alzheimer's victims constitute 50% to 60% of the 1.3 million people in nursing...
...heroin he had been studying. The mysterious ingredient, a chemical known as MPTP, had moved from the blood into the brain and damaged the same area affected by Parkinson's disease. No other substance is known to do that. Last April Dr. Irwin Kopin of the National Institute of Mental Health, co-author of the journal article, announced that he had used MPTP to induce Parkinsonism in rhesus monkeys. The work of these two men suggests that the previously unexplained symptoms of Parkinson's might result from exposure to MPTP, and thus that the disease itself may be caused...
...highly praised collection of short stories. The first, Return to Return, retells the gothic catastrophe of French Edward, a good-looking tennis pro who discovers his mother in bed with his supposedly homosexual coach, nearly drowns in the Mississippi River and is fished out with most of his mental capacities washed away. He lives on as an automaton who is still a terror on the courts. The second reprised story, Midnight and I'm Not Famous Yet, deals chiefly with Captain Bob Smith of the U.S. Army and the crisis he undergoes during the war in Viet...
...loosely linked series of scenes progress very slowly. All three women live in their own unsuccessful worlds which cannot sustain any interaction when forced to allow others to enter. After she takes in the bum, Aston's altruism causes her to suffer painful flashbacks of her past in a mental hospital and to recall her inability to deal with people. Shipley creates a very neurotic and tense Aston who has tremendous difficulty finishing thoughts. Her taut facial expressions constantly match her nervous and fidgety personality. Shipley has many opportunities to reveal her feelings to the audience, most notably...