| manic-depressive | 1. Pertaining to a manic-depressive psychosis (bipolar disorder). 2. One suffering from such a disorder. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| manic-depressive disease | See manic-depression. (12 Dec 1998) |
| manic-depressive disorder | An obsolete term for one of the mood disorders; i.e., bipolar disorder, depression; affective psychosis, affective disorder, bipolar disorder, and endogenous depression. (05 Mar 2000) |
| manic-depressive illness | Now referred to as bipolar illness, characterised by the occurrence of mania (euphoria) alternating with bouts of depression. (27 Sep 1997) |
| manic-depressive psychosis | Perviously referred to as manic depressive illness, characterised by the occurrence of mania (euphoria) alternating with bouts of depression. (27 Sep 1997) |
| disease, manic-depressive | See Manic-depression. (12 Dec 1998) |
| criminal insanity | In forensic psychiatry, a term that describes the degree of mental competence and that is defined by such currently applicable legal precedents as the American Law Institute rule, Durham rule, M'Naghten rule, and the New Hampshire rule. (05 Mar 2000) |
| insanity | 1. The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy. "All power of fancy overreason is a degree of insanity." (Johnson) "Without grace The heart's insanity admits no cure." (Cowper) 2. Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility. Synonym: Insanity, Lunacy, Madness, Derangement, Aliention, Aberration, Mania, Delirium, Frenzy, Monomania, Dementia. Insanity is the generic term for all such diseases; lunacy has now an equal extent of meaning, though once used to denote periodical insanity; madness has the same extent, though originally referring to the rage created by the disease; derangement, alienation, are popular terms for insanity; delirium, mania, and frenzy denote excited states of the disease; dementia denotes the loss of mental power by this means; monomania is insanity upon a single subject. Origin: L. Insanitas unsoundness; cf. Insania insanity, F. Insanite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| insanity defense | A legal concept that a person cannot be convicted of a crime if he lacked criminal responsibility by reason of insanity, which term is defined as a matter of law. (12 Dec 1998) |
| manic | Affected with mania. (18 Nov 1997) |
| manic-depression | Alternating moods of abnormal highs (mania) and lows (depression). Called bipolar disease because of the swings between these opposing poles in mood. (12 Dec 1998) |
| manic episode | Manifestation of a major mood disorder in which there is a distinct period during which the predominant mood of the individual is either elevated, expansive, or irritable, and there are associated symptoms of the excited or manic phase of the bipolar disorder. See: affective disorders, endogenous depression. (05 Mar 2000) |
| manic excitement | An excited mental state seen in a bipolar (manic-depressive) disorder characterised by hyperactivity, talkativeness, flight of ideas, pressured speech, grandiosity, and, occasionally, grandiose delusions. See: mania, manic-depressive. Synonym: acute mania. (05 Mar 2000) |
| manic psychosis | Psychosis with predominant affective features. Synonym: manic psychosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| depressive | 1. Pushing down. 2. Pertaining to or causing depression. (05 Mar 2000) |