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Thus, mental illness is likely an invalid term.
Severe mental illness is a risk factor for lobar pneumonia, pneumococcal pneumonia, pneumococcal septicaemia and meningitis.
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Jing Fang, Qi Cheng 
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It appears to be a kind of biopsychosocial multifactorial mental illness.
Results indicated that people with mental illness in this sample of jail inmates presented with thinking styles that support a criminal lifestyle, and have criminal thinking styles that follow a pattern that is very similar to a sample of prison inmates with serious mental illness.
A taxonomy of temperament could provide the basis for a new taxonomy of mental illness.
The results of this study indicated that hospitalized persons with mental illness with a history of criminal justice involvement evidenced similar thinking styles to persons with mental illness who were incarcerated.
This article argues that mental illness should no longer be the basis for a special defense of insanity.
Consistent with findings from other studies, results indicate that students had some understanding of mental illness as a problem of the brain with biological and psychosocial causes; however, they lacked knowledge about treatment and overall were "not sure" about many aspects of mental illness.
The case highlights the potential psychological impacts of infectious disease epidemics on individuals with mental illness.
As the true mental state of Michael Ryan is unknown, arguments are presented suggesting that speculation by the press and psychiatrists may have resulted in this change, but without influencing the public view of mental illness in general.