adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a mental checklist (=a list you keep in your mind)
▪ I try and keep a mental checklist of jobs I have to do.
a mental process
▪ Cats have different mental processes from dogs.
a mental/psychiatric illness
▪ We provide specialist care for young people with mental illnesses.
a mental/psychiatric patient (=one with problems relating to their mind)
▪ The drug was used in the past to treat mental patients.
a mental/psychiatric/psychological disorder (=affecting the mind)
▪ He was diagnosed with a severe psychiatric disorder.
learning/physical/mental etc disability
▪ children with severe learning disabilities
mental ability
▪ The exercises are supposed to help you improve your mental ability.
mental activity
▪ Your mental activity starts to slow down as you grow old.
mental age
▪ a 25-year-old man with a mental age of seven
mental arithmetic
▪ I did a quick bit of mental arithmetic.
mental attitude
▪ There is a strong connection between health and mental attitude.
mental confusion
▪ Mental confusion is one of the symptoms of the disease.
mental health
▪ Poverty affects children's physical and mental health.
mental hospital
mental institution (=for the mentally ill)
▪ a mental institution
mental powers
▪ Is it possible to enhance your mental powers?
mental strength
▪ He's a player who has the skill and the mental strength to win.
mental/emotional stress
▪ It was a time of great emotional stress for me.
mental/physical/intellectual etc incapacity
▪ Evidence of his mental incapacity was never produced in court.
physical/mental effort
▪ He struggled back from two sets down to win the match, showing great physical and mental effort.
physical/mental endurance
psychological/mental/emotional scars
▪ The mental scars left by the accident are still with him.
sb's mental outlook (=how you feel about the things in your life)
▪ Exercise can help improve your mental outlook.
sb’s mental/emotional state
▪ Whenever Ben stops his medication, his mental state deteriorates.
the stigma of alcoholism/mental illness etc
▪ The stigma of alcoholism makes it difficult to treat.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
activity
▪ The mental activity underlying the actions, still remains radically different.
▪ This ability liberates the child from sensorimotor intelligence, permitting the invention of new means of solving problems through mental activity.
▪ On the other hand, we have mental activity which enables us, second-by-second, to conceive of ourselves as mental entities.
▪ I refer to the direction of physical and mental activity toward the accomplishment of a major task.
▪ But learning does, of course, imply memory and mental activity.
▪ If you concentrate hard enough, your mental activity will slow down.
▪ It was Strongheart's manifest mental activity which opened his eyes to the mental process present in all living creatures.
▪ Anyway, this is what Wittgenstein says: It is misleading to talk of thinking as a mental activity.
age
▪ A medical report estimated she had a mental age of seven years and nine months.
▪ A.. There are some people whose physical and mental age is a whole lot younger than their nominal age.
▪ A person of 18 with Down's syndrome and a mental age of four, living with his or her parents?
▪ Most of the boys' mental age is about eleven.
▪ George Mayo is sixty two, but only has a mental age of six.
▪ Children with a mental age of 3 years and above can understand the principle and benefit from its use.
▪ Daughter Helen, 25, needed constant attention after whooping cough left her with a mental age of just two.
▪ The most pathetic case was that of a middle-aged man with the mental age of a child of nine.
attitude
▪ Once we started trekking we soon discovered that mental attitude and camaraderie were far more important than physical fitness.
▪ Are they part of your mental attitude that might defeat you in your desire to change?
▪ The coach was right, his mental attitude was right.
▪ A positive mental attitude is needed by each fighter at this point.
▪ Attention was given to planning, diet, fitness and mental attitude, the latter under the guidance of a sports psychologist.
▪ A further factor which can have an effect on the results of an experiment is the mental attitude of the experimenter.
▪ Such mental attitudes may be wholly unconscious and are difficult, if not impossible, to eliminate.
block
▪ Most of the blocks mentioned here are at the physical level, but the emotional and mental blocks are equally important.
▪ Spring focus: 2B Chuck Knoblauch claims he received help during the offseason with his mental block on routine throws.
▪ Beware of becoming so fixated on this one position that you acquire a mental block against progressing further.
▪ She developed a complete mental block against her pregnancy, and concealed it until four days before she went into labour.
▪ Their mocking faces caused a mental block - or a block somewhere else.
capacity
▪ A great deal of research has been carried out with respect to the effects of ageing on physical and mental capacities.
▪ Numerous mental capacities show similar constancy.
▪ Gen Pinochet's lawyers argued successfully that a series of minor strokes had left their client with limited mental capacity.
▪ One of them, 33-year-old Oliver Cruz, had a mental capacity of a child.
▪ And don't think that by developing the second half of your brain you will merely be doubling your mental capacity.
condition
▪ Information was required on his or her physical and mental condition, including any functional mental disorder or behavioural problems.
▪ Riders must be in excellent physical and mental condition to absorb the shock of bouncing over the water.
▪ Faint heart, perhaps - a mental condition.
▪ The incident, caused by his impaired mental condition, cast a spotlight on the dearth of psychiatric facilities in the state.
▪ The Tribunal decided that the mental condition was attributable to service and allowed the Appeal.
▪ Others noted that his mental condition had deteriorated two years ago, when he was in a serious car accident.
▪ This is because of a mental condition caused by being hit on the head by an intruder.
▪ Her physical and mental condition would deteriorate.
disability
▪ However, a great many people with some degree of mental disability were not receiving any formal care or treatment.
▪ Sam Bass, who specializes in investigating crimes against people with mental disabilities.
▪ Experts said his injuries would mean permanent physical and mental disability.
▪ Domiciliary services can help the handicapped and their families, especially when the mental disability is accompanied by physical handicap.
▪ It can come much earlier and lead to physical and mental disability.
▪ The majority of people who had benefited by the use of regulation 72 have suffered some kind of physical and/or mental disability.
▪ Most Down's people have related physical handicaps in addition to their mental disability.
▪ More severely handicapped people often suffer from physical as well as mental disabilities.
disorder
▪ There needs to be a two-pronged strategy to deal with the problems of the minority of homeless people with mental disorder.
▪ Fair enough, but do we want to equate personal helplessness and failure with mental disorder?
▪ In just over half male and female referrals no specific mental disorder was identified.
▪ Also patron of epileptics and runaways; she is invoked against diabolic possession and mental disorders.
▪ Another form of mental disorder, pellagra, was associated clinically with diarrhoea and dermatitis.
▪ Dementia is the mental disorder most usually associated with the later parts of the life cycle.
▪ Of the forty eight-people in prisons who killed themselves in 1989, 40 percent had a history of previous mental disorder.
element
▪ The mental element is knowledge of the taking and dishonesty.
▪ The mental element now definitely includes recklessness.
▪ If such intent can not be shown, the awareness part of this mental element definition could be used.
▪ No mental element is expressly stated in s.47.
event
▪ Given what has been said, a mental event can be simple or complex and of any duration.
▪ Certainly we may feel a resistance to the idea that mental events are in space.
▪ Mental events, like most events, are composite-they contain or are constituted of other mental events.
▪ It is mental events that raise the questions with which we are concerned.
▪ Given the conception we have, are mental events as we have conceived them excluded from being physical?
▪ We are not forced to the conclusion that mental events are somehow outside of the physical world.
▪ A mental event is individuated, first, as being within the consciousness of a given individual.
▪ In fact, however, there are independent good reasons to suppose that mental events are physical in the given sense.
handicap
▪ This is especially true of elderly people in mental handicap hospitals who have lived in a closed world all their lives.
▪ And it has been in the nature of documentary television to also exploit the subject of mental handicap in a sensational fashion.
▪ Documentaries still seek the sensational and thus help to compound the fears of the public about mental handicap hospitals.
▪ Mr Chance, of Nunthorpe, Cleveland, is a charity worker extraordinaire whose good deeds are mostly connected with mental handicap.
▪ The media could also do much more to help people to understand about mental handicap.
▪ Welfare and social services Recent research has demonstrated that people with severe mental handicaps can undertake productive work, with adequate support.
▪ Thus, many community mental handicap teams have devised absurdly ambitious operational policies which attempt to do all things for all persons.
▪ Within these small communities, each person with a mental handicap has a special friend.
health
▪ To spell out how the concept works, plans for care management in Southwark's mental health services are described.
▪ Mrs Carter pushed for mental health legislation and regularly attended cabinet meetings.
▪ Finally, there is mental health.
▪ Parham marked... a pronounced turnabout in the assumptions believed to underlie juvenile mental health law.
▪ I have had two experiences in which the mental health problems of older people have been successfully treated by a homeopath.
▪ Is it a mental health issue?!
▪ Increasingly, situations like the ones cited affect the mental health of carers.
▪ It applies to homes for elderly people and homes for people with disabilities, mental health or addiction problems.
hospital
▪ Read in studio A Victorian mental hospital is up for sale ... and could fetch more than two million pounds.
▪ As a result he was in a mental hospital, from which he escaped merely by strolling off the grounds.
▪ Indeed a scenario of resources being drawn from the mental hospitals into the non-mental health budget might be readily anticipated.
▪ Brown died April 30 at the state mental hospital.
▪ Borocourt was a mental hospital until 3 weeks ago.
▪ California mental hospitals continued releasing people, however, and some closed their doors.
▪ Rocky himself, currently in a Texas mental hospital, will be released to play at the launch party!
▪ The opening of the hospital has also reinvigorated a wider debate on the need for mental hospitals for the young.
illness
▪ Anxiety Another aspect of mental illness examined in community samples of the elderly is anxiety states.
▪ Soon, Michael would be diagnosed with schizophrenia, the most chronic and disabling of the major mental illnesses.
▪ Such groups include the elderly as well as those with mental illness or physical and/or mental handicaps.
▪ How do we know that a Qubilah Shabazz or a Malcolm Shabazz is improving in a mental illness?
▪ For almost two years detectives maintained that Mr Menson, who had a history of mental illness, had committed suicide.
▪ Another member of his family, in my generation, also had to be hospitalized for mental illness.
▪ In crude terms, the causes of mental illness seem to be of three main kinds.
▪ We might well ask what such physical symptoms are doing in a manual of mental illness.
image
▪ Slowly, the process converges on a piece of art that is an expression of the user's own mental image.
▪ Visualization / Imagery-This technique combines relaxation exercises with the creation of mental images.
▪ In his case words and the mental images that they created were the only available means of communication with his people.
▪ Our mental images of ourselves are tied up in our body image.
▪ Does this mean that our mental images depend on this amine in some way?
▪ Turning to the second problem, suppose we sharpen the notion of an idea by saying that ideas are mental images.
▪ But not the vision as a private mental image.
▪ Sights, smell, sounds, and touch are all included in mental images.
institution
▪ Recently escaped from the state mental institution.
▪ Thornton also stars as a mildly retarded man who returns to his hometown after 25 years in a mental institution.
▪ Subsequent investigation showed that Wingate had been interned in various mental institutions for the past seven years of his life.
▪ What movie do Brad Pitt and Willis watch in the mental institution?
▪ Next, we have Walter impounded in a large mental institution with other inmates, played by real mentally handicapped people.
▪ Crazy Rita is in a mental institution.
▪ The same goes for mental institutions and so forth.
lexicon
▪ The mental lexicon is also involved in the production of written or spoken language.
▪ We have seen that a mental lexicon must contain semantic, phonological and orthographic information about words.
▪ Considering the first issue, most psycholinguists support the existence of a mental lexicon that contains knowledge about words.
life
▪ In this sense of the term, my mental life contains my knowing things, and remembering things, and seeing things.
▪ Most psychologists have virtually nothing to say about mental life, learning and growing, in our adult years.
▪ Psychologists study mental life and behaviour; psychiatrists are doctors who specialize in treating disorders of the mind.
▪ Lacking its tumultuously fruitful influence, our mental lives would be almost as barren as the moon.
▪ And when we are satisfied and at peace, then we are ready for the endless joys of the mental life.
▪ So again, laboratory techniques were affording scientists a glimpse of their subjects' mental lives.
model
▪ This phenomenon is explained by the fact that elements can be introduced into mental models without being explicitly mentioned.
▪ When you hear a sentence, you have to make a mental model for what that string of sounds represents.
▪ In the context of the mental models theory of comprehension a specific account of anaphor interpretation must be developed.
▪ There was no mental model for pointing with more than one finger.
note
▪ Just make a mental note of what is around.
▪ I made another mental note to quit smoking cigarettes and take up pipes.
▪ He made a mental note of the number of coaches and freight cars.
▪ Child circled the classroom, making mental notes of good or negative parenting behavior he would discuss with the adults later.
▪ Thinking of that, he made a mental note to burn it in the morning.
▪ He made a mental note of the byline above the Globe articles, Frank Dougherty, then sifted through the newspaper photographs.
▪ Making a mental note not to let outside interests interfere with her work, she began to inject the puppies.
▪ He made a mental note to buy another chair.
patient
▪ A lot of mental patients have a strong belief in the occult listed on their personality profiles.
▪ The massive deinstitutionalization of mental patients in favor of community-based treatment during the 1970s was a perfect example.
▪ There would be less deaths and murders and mental patients.
▪ Angel Coro, an escaped mental patient with a long criminal record, was arrested.
▪ But Beryl is an ugly duckling rapidly turning into a beautiful swan ... all through the hard work of recovering mental patients.
▪ You are interested, for example, in the rights of mental patients -.
▪ His trust also looks after 1,200 female mental patients and about 2,000 male ones.
▪ Sister Lauren says it's a technique lots of mental patients learn.
picture
▪ This is in order to provide the reader with a mental picture of the house as the technical options are discussed.
▪ As they crossed Park Avenue, he had a mental picture of what an ideal pair they made.
▪ She had an acute mental picture of him.
▪ They learn to let words create a mental picture and to then make a replica of their vision.
▪ She had a mental picture of Samuel Roberts' fine, hard face.
▪ Somewhere between the event and the sentence is a mental picture.
▪ Such a mental picture, the more remarkable the more one considers it, is probably within the minds of most animals.
▪ They make a funny mental picture because she is so short and he is so tall, just for starters.
problem
▪ I had never met anyone with mental problems.
▪ There are a lot of preventive measures that would reduce the number of severe mental problems.
▪ Jurors in the case of Dalton Prejean were unaware of his long-term mental problems when sentencing him to death.
▪ Russell Keys was, by all accounts, a clever, amusing man with manageable mental problems.
▪ Police said the 20-year-old had a history of mental problems.
▪ Surely we can do better for people with mental problems and their families?
▪ One student came to me today and said he had mental problems.
▪ The main reasons are briefly described under the following headings: physical problems; mental problems; problems due to sensory impairment/loss.
process
▪ They have shown that mental processes can be correlated with specific neural changes.
▪ Also, Piaget did infer the existence of internal mental processes.
▪ One is a primary teacher who was interested in the mental processes of children tackling simple addition.
▪ Pros: A great way to temporarily impair mental processes without having to take medication.
▪ More important, the mental processes being studied are still only crudely defined.
▪ William James viewed mental processes as a stream, or river.
▪ I am not, for example, denying that there occur mental processes.
▪ Doing long division is a mental process and so is making a joke.
retardation
▪ Yet even people with severe mental retardation show a high level of curiosity in certain circumstances.
▪ In some cases, there is also mental retardation and soft-tissue calcifications.
▪ In this sense the world would be a better place without mental retardation, madness, and senile dementia.
▪ Such lipid accumulation frequently leads to mental retardation or progressive loss of central nervous system functions.
▪ Excessive drinking during pregnancy can cause mental retardation and physical problems with the child.
▪ Aid workers say areas that were heavily bombed now have high rates of birth defects, sterility and mental retardation.
▪ Those born with it can develop mental retardation, epilepsy and blindness - sometimes years later.
▪ Ohio uses local boards to manage its outpatient mental health and mental retardation services.
scar
▪ He still carries the mental scars.
▪ The 250 stitches Stephen Thomas required have now been removed, but both physical and mental scars remain.
▪ The mental scars will eventually heal!
▪ The physical wounds are beginning to heal, but what about the mental scars?
▪ The attack has left mental scars on Terry and his family too.
▪ The mental scars are more insidious.
▪ And he now enjoys a walk again ... though until the mental scars heal, nowhere near the traffic.
▪ But the mental scars left by that head on crash are still with him, especially when he drives.
state
▪ What his mental state was, Giuliani had no idea.
▪ This enables you to learn which mental states bring on tension and which ones calm it.
▪ As we fall asleep our mental state becomes somewhat unpredictable from such gross measures.
▪ Obviously, what the poet communicates to the reader in this poem is a complex reflection of her current mental state.
▪ For him, if machines show outwardly intelligent behaviour, then there is bound to be some matching inner mental state.
▪ This juggling is mostly unconscious: they automatically adjust their consumption of both drugs to maintain a desired physical or mental state.
▪ How then are we to find a conception of mental states other than that on which the sceptical argument trades?
▪ This is a work construct defined in terms of activities and physically identifiable consequences rather than mental states.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
make a (mental) note to do sth
▪ He made a mental note to call her and arrange a time to meet, away from her parents.
▪ He makes a mental note to call Keith a second time at 7:15.
▪ I made a note to myself to check for the box.
▪ I made a note to myself to come back in early spring to get scions for grafting.
▪ I made a mental note to ask about that.
▪ Mentally, I make a note to have the boy checked by our pediatrician.
▪ Thinking of that, he made a mental note to burn it in the morning.
▪ Vickie makes a note to raise the issue when she attends the management meeting.
mental/intellectual/moral gymnastics
▪ I changed into my running clothes and did three miles while I went through the mental gymnastics of getting the case organized.
▪ None the less, great feats of mental gymnastics were per-formed to make them into atmospheric phenomena.
mental/visual/cognitive/hearing etc impairment
▪ An artist who has a visual impairment, working with and not against its limitations.
▪ Five years after his illness began the patient complained of progressive visual impairment.
▪ Hearing checks are essential as conductive hearing impairment is very frequent in young children.
▪ However, visual impairment does seem to be related to both anxiety and depression.
▪ Nausea, visual impairment, or headache occasionally occur.
▪ The authors recognise the many methodological problems in studying disabilities that may result from hearing impairment.
▪ The complete lack of cognitive improvements leads them to suggest that cognitive impairment is intrinsically associated with long-term morbidity in schizophrenia.
▪ This is one reason why hearing impairment in childhood is totally different from hearing loss in adult life.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ mental health
▪ a mental institution
▪ a hospital ward for non-violent mental patients
▪ After months of overworking, Briggs was suffering from mental and physical exhaustion.
▪ I'd never met Jane's boyfriend, but I had a clear mental picture of what he looked like.
▪ It takes a lot of mental effort to understand these ideas.
▪ Rick had a complete mental breakdown after his family died in a car crash.
▪ That guy's mental!
▪ Violent mental patients were kept in a separate ward.
▪ We knew she had been having mental problems.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He craved effort, especially mental effort.
▪ In people who are not esoterically developed, the mental and emotional bodies are in a rudimentary or nascent state.
▪ Recently escaped from the state mental institution.
▪ Swiney proposed that women's racial superiority was evidenced both by their physical and mental capabilities and in their internal cellular composition.
▪ The popular health movement also looks at health in a holistic way - the physical, mental and spiritual aspects.
▪ The power goes beyond that which can be defined as physical or mental.
▪ There had been, the broadcast added unexpectedly, a history of mental instability.
▪ Thornton also stars as a mildly retarded man who returns to his hometown after 25 years in a mental institution.