Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Attorney Judith L. Lindahl told Zobel that the mother of the children has a number of psychological problems, including a split personality, and asked the court to obtain the mother's mental health history so that her reliability as a witness could be questioned...
...same data, the group had concluded that abortion inflicts no particular psychological damage on women. She pointed out that despite the millions of women who have undergone the procedure since the landmark Roe v. Wade case legalized abortion in 1973, there has been no accompanying rise in mental illness. "If severe reactions were common," she noted, "there would be an epidemic of women seeking treatment...
...number-two seed. The Golden Gophers will be led by the well-rested skates of junior Captain Dave Snuggerud (27-19--46). Also expected to fill the rope basket are junior wingmen Tom Chorske (24-17--41) and Peter Hankinson (15-26--41). If Wisconsin has gained a mental edge by handily defeating the Saints, then Minnesota may have a physical advantage after resting sores and bruises over the mini-layoff...
Harvard geneticist Philip Leder cites many common diseases -- hyper-tension, allergies, diabetes, heart disease, mental illness and some (perhaps all) cancers -- that have a genetic component. Unlike Huntington's and Tay-Sachs diseases, which are caused by a single defective gene, many of these disorders have their roots in several errant genes and would require genetic therapy far more sophisticated than any now even being contemplated. Still, says Leder, "in the end, genetic mapping is going to have its greatest impact on these major diseases...
History shows that genetic misinformation can be severely damaging. Take, for example, the supposed link between the XYY chromosome pattern and criminal behavior. In 1965 a study of violent criminals in a Scottish high-security mental institution found that a surprisingly high percentage had a particular chromosomal abnormality: in addition to the X and Y chromosomes normally found in men, each carried an extra Y, or "male" chromosome. The press and public seized on the idea that these so-called supermales were genetically predestined to a life of crime. That interpretation proved false. Further investigations showed that the vast majority...