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Let's start with Beatle mania hysterical teenagers, crying, screaming, pandemonium.

B12 deficiency can also cause characteristics of mania and psychosis.

DAKAR Sub Saharan African is in the grip of currency union mania.

Sports mania deafening crowds, all for one idea get the ball in the net.

The first, written in 1855, thirty five years after his death, concluded he suffered from acute mania.

From early 1947 to May 1948, when Israel became a state, Amalia (Mania) Schoeps was director of Sciesopoli.

Indeed China mania, a mixture of hopes, but mostly fears, is sweeping the world due to China s rapid economic rise.

LONDON As Olympic mania swept the world in recent weeks, it transported the host country, Great Britain, to a rare display of public exultation.

Mania is always relative to the normal rate of intensity of the person being diagnosed with it therefore, an easily angered person may exhibit mania by getting even angrier even more quickly, and an intelligent person may adopt seemingly genius characteristics and an ability to perform and to articulate thought beyond what they can do in a normal mood.

Anti Japanese riots across China have heightened tensions in Asia. Indeed China mania, a mixture of hopes, but mostly fears, is sweeping the world due to China s rapid economic rise.

And linked to this crowd mania were examples all around the world from the election of a president to the infamous Wikipedia, and everything in between on what the power of numbers could achieve.

DAKAR Sub Saharan African is in the grip of currency union mania. Regional groups of countries in eastern, southern, and western Africa are all giving priority to the idea of creating a monetary union.

When the Internet injected the media industry with a heavy dose of speed, I welcomed the resulting 24 hour mania of political coverage, and working as a correspondent in a storied newsroom made the craving virtually insatiable.

And yet, there is something odd about the European mania for a black American politician, even as we all know that a black president or prime minister (let alone one whose middle name is Hussein) is still unthinkable in Europe.

Filmmaker David Hoffman shares footage from his feature length documentary Sputnik Mania, which shows how the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik in 1957 led to both the space race and the arms race and jump started science and math education around the world.

And yet, there is something odd about the European mania for a black American politician, even as we all know that a black president or prime minister (let alone one whose middle name is Hussein) is still unthinkable in Europe. Or perhaps that is precisely the point.

In full blown mania, often the manic person will feel as though his or her goal(s) trump all else, that there are no consequences or that negative consequences would be minimal, and that they need not exercise restraint in the pursuit of what they are after.