Amentia

= Cretinism = is a form of amentia, which is endemic in certain districts, especially in some of the valleys of Switzerland, Savoy, and France. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

In dementia the mental aberration does not occur until the mind has become fully developed, thus differing from amentia, which is congenital or comes on very early in life. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Sometimes the speech is adequate in amount but conveys little information because it is overconcrete, overabstract, repetitive, or stereotyped (poverty of content). amentia Subnormal development of the mind, with particular reference to intellectual capacities; a type of severe mental retardation. anosognosia The apparent unawareness of or failure to recognize one†™ s own functional defect apathy Lack of feeling, emotion, interest, or concern. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Tantamque victoriam amentia hominum consequuti sunt, ut si colligere in unum velis, universum orbem istis scelestibus spiritibus subjectum fuisse invenies: Usque ad Salvaloris adventum hominum caede perniciosissimos daemones placabant, &c. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Acute miliary tuberculosis may produce the impression of a general paresis or of an amentia in Meynert's sense. ❋ Unknown (1916)

According to Ziehen, most of these nephritic psychoses run the course of what he calls hallucinatory paranoia (it may be remembered that Ziehen counts among paranoias a number of acute diseases and even so-called Meynert's amentia). ❋ Unknown (1916)

Binswanger states that tuberculosis, aside from miliary tuberculosis or meningitis, produces no mental disorder except phenomena of the amentia of exhaustion. ❋ Unknown (1916)

A conversation with almost any rural teacher will impress upon one the fact that the teacher is loath to declare feeble-minded a child whose records give unmistakable evidence of amentia and that she generally regards the child as merely dull. ❋ Unknown (1911)

The information gathered indicates that epilepsy and the neurotic predisposition to insanity need to be investigated as well as amentia, [5] and that the epileptics and neurotics, even among rural children, are more numerous than is usually supposed. ❋ Unknown (1911)

Illegitimacy holds in the problem of rural feeble-mindedness the same position that prostitution occupies in urban amentia. ❋ Unknown (1911)

Notes Moira Dolan, an Austin, Texas, doctor who advocates a ban on the procedure, "When we look back at the beginnings of electric shock there was truth in advertising [with such labels as] as annihilation therapy and amentia." ❋ [Your Name Here] (2010)

In 1942, one impassioned advocate, Dr. Abraham Myerson, commented: "The reduction of intelligence is an important factor in the curative process … The fact is that some of the very best cures that one gets are in those individuals whom one reduced almost to amentia [mindlessness]." ❋ [Your Name Here] (2010)

Religion, comprises a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find in an isolated form nowhere else but in amentia, in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. ❋ Mike Rivero (2010)

U.fol. oppofids ovads fobintegerrimis, amentia fhiftiferis globofis. a pumita. ❋ Murray, Johann Andreas, 1740-1791 (1784)

amentia Subnormal development of the mind, with particular reference to intellectual capacities; a type of severe mental retardation. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Quis sublime genus formamque insignis Etruscae nesciat? haud quamquam proprio mihi cognita uisu, sed decus eximium famae par reddit imago, uultibus et similis natorum gratia monstrat. nec uulgare genus; fascis summamque curulem115 frater et Ausonios ensis mandataque fidus signa tulit, cum prima trucis amentia Dacos impulit et magno gens est damnata triumpho. sic quicquid patrio cessatum a sanguine, mater reddidit, obscurumque latus clarescere uidit120 conubio gauisa domus. nec pignora longe; quippe bis ad partus uenit Lucina manuque ipsa leui grauidos tetigit fecunda labores. felix a! si longa dies, si cernere uultus natorum uiridisque genas tibi iusta dedissent125 stamina! sed media cecidere abrupta iuuenta: gaudia florentisque manu scidit Atropos annos; qualia pallentis declinant lilia culmos pubentesque rosae primos moriuntur ad austros, aut ubi uerna nouis exspirat purpura pratis. ❋ Unknown (1912)

Sometimes the speech is adequate in amount but conveys little information because it is overconcrete, overabstract, repetitive, or stereotyped (poverty of content). amentia Subnormal development of the mind, with particular reference to intellectual capacities; a type of severe mental retardation. anosognosia The apparent unawareness of or failure to recognize one’s own functional defect apathy Lack of feeling, emotion, interest, or concern. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Is this debate that shouldn’t be one a uniquely American amentia? ❋ Unknown (2006)

When a person is so [extremely retarded] that they act completely [illogical] or show any sense, that person is a suffering from [amentia]. ❋ Adam Sanderson (2018)

[Clitorus] took one [to the dome] causing [amentia]. ❋ ItsDarthMaul (2022)