mental abnormality

"There's nothing on his card to suggest any mental abnormality.

Others were put into fantastic states of mental abnormality.

Soon after this the latter began to show mental abnormalities which continually grew worse.

The medieval understanding of mental abnormality was ignorant and superstitious.

This emotional detachment and blandness in certain areas is other evidence of his mental abnormality.

A birth defect is a physical or mental abnormality present at the time of birth.

Rather than being released, he was committed on the grounds that he had a mental abnormality.

However, as in other psychiatric institutions across the country, civil commitment is based on dangerousness related to a mental abnormality.

The state law's definition of "mental abnormality" was a source of confusion during the arguments.

In addition, the committee assumed that mental abnormality could be detected early in life with various test instruments.

The psychiatrists who examined him found no evidence of mental abnormality, but did mention he had a tendency towards acting before thinking.

Her memoirs contain no trace of mental abnormality.

However unlike these conditions, uncombable hair syndrome alone is not associated with physical, neurologic, or mental abnormalities.

Kansas had argued that proof of dangerousness, coupled with a mental abnormality, was sufficient.

Four: there is a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped.

In many states, the legal test for "mental abnormality" is weaker than that for mental illness.

It had become possible for a trained psychiatrist to induce in himself a temporary state of mental abnormality by use of these machines.

The legal basis for their confinement, affirmed by the Supreme Court in 1997, is treatment for a mental abnormality.

Long since, psychophysicists had realized that mental abnormality had a chemical as well as a mental cause.

It is also said that the ritual of Guruthi Tharpanam cures a woman suffering from mental abnormalities.

Since pedophilia is defined as a mental abnormality under the Act, the court ordered that Hendricks be civilly committed.

This was because they had had to study the reasons for mental abnormalities before they could begin to devise machines for curing them.

Furthermore, although the plea had to be based on some form of mental abnormality, that condition need not be one bordering on insanity.

The state law defines mental abnormality as a condition that "predisposes the person to commit sexually violent offenses" to the point of putting others in danger.