| DSM-III-R | Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders [of APA], third edition, revised |
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| DSM-IV | Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders [of APA], fourth edition |
| CAMDEX | Cambridge mental disorders of the elderly examination |
| NINCDS/ADRDA | National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Diseases and Stroke/Alzheimer's Disease and Rel... |
| NINCDS | National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke |
| LOCF | Last Observation Carried Forward |
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| NOSIE | Nurse's Observation Scale for Inpatient Evaluation |
| PYO | person years of observation |
| NINDS | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke |
| SADS-L | Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia Lifetime Version |
| mental | 1. <psychiatry> Pertaining to the mind, psychic. 2. <anatomy> Pertaining to the chin. Origin: L. Mens = mind, L. Mentum = chin (18 Nov 1997) |
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| mental aberration | Disturbed thought or behaviour that connotes a psychological or psychiatric impairment. See: delusion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mental age | A measure, expressed in years and months, of a child's measured intelligence relative to age norms as determined by testing with the Stanford-Binet intelligence scale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mental agraphia | The inability to express ideas in writing. Synonym: mental agraphia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mental apparatus | Mental structure consisting of thoughts, feelings, cognitions, and memories; in psychoanalysis, the topographic structure of the mind. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mental artery | <anatomy, artery> Distribution, chin; the terminal branch of the inferior alveolar; anastomoses, inferior labial artery. Synonym: arteria mentalis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mental canal | The anterior opening of the mandibular canal on the body of the mandible lateral to and above the mental tubercle giving passage to the mental artery and nerve. Synonym: foramen mentale, mental canal. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mental competency | Ability to perform or accomplish an action or task that another person of similar background and training, or any human being, could reasonably be expected to perform. The term almost always refers to mental capacity. Incompetency refers to primarily defects in intellectual functioning such that comprehension of the nature of a transaction is interfered with or otherwise inadequate. It takes no note of temperament, emotions, or the like, even though these may interfere with a person's capacity to function. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mental deficiency | Subnormal intellectual functioning which originates during the developmental period and is associated with impairment of one or more of the following: (1) maturation, (2) learning, (3) social adjustment. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mental disorder | A psychological syndrome or behavioural pattern that is associated with either subjective distress or objective impairment. See: mental illness, behaviour disorder. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mental fatigue | Fatigue arising in consequence of mental effort. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mental foramen | The anterior opening of the mandibular canal on the body of the mandible lateral to and above the mental tubercle giving passage to the mental artery and nerve. Synonym: foramen mentale, mental canal. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mental healing | The use of suggestion or faith to cure disease, particularly physical illness. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mental health | The state wherein the person is well adjusted. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mental health associations | Voluntary organizations which support educational programs and research in psychiatry with the objective of the promotion of mental health. An early association in the united states was founded as the national committee for mental hygiene in 1909, became the mental health association in 1976 and later the national mental health association in 1980. State and local mental health associations in this country are chartered by the national organization and affiliated with it. (12 Dec 1998) |