# REDIRECT Mental retardation

Category: Mental retardation

* Mental retardation / developmental delay

* Mental retardation

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* F70 – F79 Mental retardation

* Mental retardation

Category: Mental retardation

* Mental retardation, a developmental disorder

Category: Mental retardation

# REDIRECT Mental retardation

Mental retardation is usually diagnosed before the age of 18 when individuals are tested to find out if their intelligence is below average in their age group.

* Mental retardation

* Mental retardation

* The Mental Retardation Facilities Construction Act of 1963 authorized federal support for the construction of university-affiliated training facilities, mental retardation research centers, and community service facilities for adults and children with mental retardation.

* Cognition — Mental retardation, confusion under pressure, poor abstract skills, difficulty distinguishing between fantasy and reality, slower cognitive processing

Category: Mental retardation

* Mental retardation

* Mental retardation

Category: Mental retardation

# REDIRECT Mental retardation

# REDIRECT Mental retardation

This opinion is supported by one of the nation's leading psychiatrists, Dr. Maurice E. Linden, director of the Mental Health Division of the Philadelphia Department of Public Health.

To be diagnosed with mania according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ), a person must experience this state of elevated or irritable mood, as well as other symptoms, for at least one week, less if hospitalization is required.

In the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association ( DSM-IV-TR ) it is not recognized as a separate disorder, but is associated with psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia ( catatonic type ), bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and other mental disorders, as well as drug abuse or overdose ( or both ).

< http :// www. oed. com / view / Entry / 39766 >; accessed 20 March 2012 .</ ref > Other sources pre-date this use by nearly four decades to at least 1871, where it is used in The Journal of Mental Science reporting on a conference of the Fifth Quarterly Meeting of the Medico-Psychological Association ( now the Royal College of Psychiatrists ), held on Thursday, January 27th, 1870:

These individuals are usually considered to be mentally ill, although the compulsion to eat human flesh is not formally listed as a mental disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ).

In 1917, a Committee on Statistics from what is now known as the American Psychiatric Association ( APA ), together with the National Commission on Mental Hygiene, developed a new guide for mental hospitals called the " Statistical Manual for the Use of Institutions for the Insane ", which included 22 diagnoses.

A consumer is a person who accesses psychiatric services and may have been given a diagnosis from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, while a survivor self-identifies as having survived psychiatric intervention and the mental health system ( which may have involved involuntary commitment and involuntary treatment ).

The next ( fifth ) edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ), DSM-5, is currently in consultation, planning and preparation.

* Epilepsy Female with / without Mental Retardation, is characterized by seizure onset in infancy or early childhood ( 6 – 36 months ) and cognitive impairment in some cases.

United Nations General Assembly ( resolution 46 / 119 of 1991 ), " Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and the Improvement of Mental Health Care " is a non-binding resolution advocating certain broadly-drawn procedures for the carrying out of involuntary commitment.

Mental health law is constitutionally under the state powers.

In the United Kingdom, the process known in the United States as involuntary commitment is informally known as " detaining " or " sectioning ," using various sections of the Mental Health Act 1983 ( covering England and Wales ), the Mental Health ( Northern Ireland ) Order 1986 and the Mental Health ( Care and Treatment ) ( Scotland ) Act 2003 that provide its legal basis.

Under the Mental Health Act, detention is determined by utility and purpose.

The Michigan Mental Health Code provides that a person " whose judgment is so impaired that he or she is unable to understand his or her need for treatment and whose continued behavior as the result of this mental illness can reasonably be expected, on the basis of competent clinical opinion, to result in significant physical harm to himself or herself or others " may be subjected to involuntary commitment, a provision paralleled in the laws of many other jurisdictions.

Central to the game is the aspect of Mental Balance, which is a sanity-gauge of sorts.

" Jamison is the recipient of the National Mental Health Association's William Styron Award ( 1995 ), the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Research Award ( 1996 ), the Community Mental Health Leadership Award ( 1999 ), and was a 2001 MacArthur Fellowship recipient.

Mental disorders can arise from multiple sources, and in many cases there is no single accepted or consistent cause currently established.

There is also a World Mental Health Day, which in the US and Canada falls within a Mental Illness Awareness Week.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ) defines six subtypes of the disorder characterized as erotomanic ( believes that someone is in love with him / her ), grandiose ( believes that he / she is the greatest, strongest, fastest, richest, and / or most intelligent person ever ), jealous ( believes that the love partner is cheating on him / her ), persecutory ( believes that someone is following him / her to do some harm in some way ), somatic ( believes that he / she has a disease or medical condition ), and mixed, i. e., having features of more than one subtype.

Disorganized schizophrenia, also known as hebephrenia, is a subtype of schizophrenia, as defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM-IV code 295. 10.