court determines the accused still suffers from a
mental disease and his
There were 212 applications for compensation for workers'
mental diseases in fiscal 2000, up 57.
Meanwhile, scientist will have to try to understand how environment interacts with DNA to cause
mental diseases. "We cannot expect to understand what DNA does wrong until we understand what it is responding to," Heston writes.
As long as
mental disease is a subject of shaAme and embarrassment, little will change.
The court also commented that it was awkward to apply the insanity defense in this case because the defendant was not insane in the traditional sense in that he did not suffer from a
mental disease. State v.
But, supposing that that were to happen, the phenomena so identified would cease to be
mental diseases and become instead infectious or neurological diseases--much as paresis [syphilitic dementia] and epilepsy ceased to be
mental diseases once their pathoanatomical and pathophysiological nature became established."
Surgeon General Thomas Parran pointed out that "half of all hospital beds in the country, some 600,000, are occupied by mental patients" and "125,000 new cases of
mental disease are admitted annually." Maj.
Her son, who lives in Canada, said that his mother had no record of
mental disease. He said his father remains in jail for practicing Falun Gong.
The equation of the mind with the brain and of
mental disease with brain disease, supported by the authority of a large body of neuroscience literature, is used to render rational the drug treatment of mental illness and justify the demand for parity in insurance coverage for medical and mental disorders.
Future community surveys are needed to assess the extent of impairment and disability in the daily lives of those assigned a
mental disease diagnosis, they say.
The ALI Rule states, "A person is not responsible for criminal conduct if at the time of such conduct as a result of
mental disease or defect he lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate the criminality of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of the law?
For an example of how far the latter
mental disease has reached into the chambers of the mighty, hear the majority decision of the U.