Mental Disorder—The Need for an Accurate Definition

Mental Disorder—The Need for an Accurate Definition

There are several reasons why a definition for mental disorder is essential. Among these are not only reasons linked to psychiatry itself as a science (nosology, research) but also to ethical, legal, and financial issues. The first formal definition of mental disorder resulted from a deep conceptual analysis led by Robert Spitzer. It emerged to address several challenges that psychiatry faced a...

An Approach for Accurate Edging using Dynamic Membership Functions

In this paper, by means of fuzzy approaches, an accurate method is introduced for edging of color photographs. The difference between our method with other similar methods is the use of a morphological operation to think or thick the obtained edges. In this proposed method, a 3×3 window is dragged on the photo. For each block, 12 point sets will be defined, each including two non-overlapping po...

We Need an Educationally Relevant Definition of Mobile Learning

In this paper we challenge current definitions of mobile learning and suggest that the direction of progress, both in theoretical/applied research as well as its role as a tool that serves social transformation and development, will be determined and even dictated by the availability of an adequate definition. A new framework for the definition of mobile learning is proposed, one that considers...

Mental Retardation and the Death Penalty: The Need for an International Standard Defining Mental Retardation

Positive mental health need for holistic approach.

Mental health is not just the absence of mental disorder, but is a state in which an individual has a sense of well being in which he or she realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life and thus can work productively and fruitfully and is able to contribute to their own community. Mental illness is not uncommon with approximately 450 million people affected globa...