Jay Walker on the world's English mania

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

Hypomania is different, as it may cause little or no impairment in function.

And back in the early 20th century, the pursuit of powered man flight was like the dot com of the day.

And in summer, it's almost manic hunting and working activity very long hours, very active.

In my own practice, my colleagues and I have encountered patients who reported that they were previously diagnosed with bipolar disorder, despite lacking a history of manic or hypomanic episodes.

The permanent war footing is just one manifestation of North Korea s obsession with rugged self sufficiency.

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

I believe that Americans obsession with Suleman is a projection of their own guilt and shame at their recent choices.

The obsession of politicians with imposing the rule of law through iron fisted methods, it seems, brings about only more insecurity for their citizens.

He says the so called achievement disease among parents is what has made the college admissions process become so stressful

If you live only once, in one life cultures around the world, you will see an obsession with binary logic, absolute truth, standardization, absoluteness, linear patterns in design.

And the third is the result of our media culture, obsessed as it is with putting a face to events.

America s presence and bilateral partnerships are complementary to Asian states obsession with counter dominance and non interference in the region.

Indeed, many regard Netanyahu s Iran obsession as nothing more than a successful ploy to divert attention from the Palestinian issue.

You've never really been sure of this, but I can assure you that this quirk you're so self conscious of is intensely endearing.

LONDON There was a time when league tables were to be found only on the sports pages of newspapers. Now they are a global obsession.

Today, the public s obsession has made India into the sport s global financial powerhouse, with advertisers and sponsors pouring unheard of sums into the game.

The longer the US obsesses over its own political dysfunction and attendant economic stagnation, the less likely it is to bear the mantle of global responsibility and leadership.

However obsessed international opinion may be with Gaza s agony, to most Israelis the Palestinian problem seems to be happening on the dark side of the moon.

Europeans continue to look inward, obsessed with their own problems of declining competitiveness and how to pay for entitlements that they have come to regard as theirs by right.

Its chronic indecisiveness about the North and unwillingness to use its leverage, thus shielding its socialist ally, seems to reveal to the wider world a China obsessed with its own narrow interests.

Case studies revealed hypomania and personality changes of which patients were unaware, and which disrupted family relationships before the stimulation parameters were readjusted.

Charles sided with the Tories, and, following the discovery of the Rye House Plot to murder Charles and James in 1683, some Whig leaders were executed or forced into exile.

The national Ministry of Health has accepted a manual by Chinese psychologists which categorizes obsession with internet as a mental disease, and it is expected to turn into a guideline for all the hospitals in China very soon.

In 1967, The Trip , written by Jack Nicholson and starring Peter Fonda, began the psychedelic film craze of the late 1960s and was the American entry at Cannes that year.

And this shows that engineers, medical people, scientific people, have an obsession with solving the problems of reality, when actually most problems, once you reach a basic level of wealth in society, most problems are actually problems of perception.

China s new leadership, headed by President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang, seems determined to end its predecessors fixation on maintaining a rapid pace of economic growth and to refocus policy on the quality of growth.

This pattern reflects the Fed s own obsession with price stability, which encourages preemptive interest rate increases to head off inflation, but restrains equivalent preemptive reductions to head off unemployment.

In the long term, the challenge is more vague, but deeper. The longer the US obsesses over its own political dysfunction and attendant economic stagnation, the less likely it is to bear the mantle of global responsibility and leadership.

The movement s libertarian message is now regularly subverted by anti Muslim paranoia and contradicted by activism supporting such initiatives as the mass round up, without due process, of undocumented immigrants in Arizona.

But the Iranian revolution holds another lesson for Pakistani liberals obsessed with evicting the Shah, Iran s intelligentsia was delusional about their own society and their potential to emerge victorious via an abrupt political upheaval.

But Ahmedinejad s obsession with Israel blinds him to any understanding of what actually happened across Europe during WWII and to the fact that present day Europe was constructed over the six decades since then as a response to this historical disaster.

A Turkish soap opera, Noor, has become a hit in the Arab world, with reports of fights and even divorces occurring because of the obsession of many women with the handsome male star, Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ, who plays Muhannad. Some Bahraini bloggers have been examining the popularity of the drama series amongst Arabs.

Obsessed with the war on terror as well as an ideology of privatizing the functions of government, the administration systematically sapped FEMA s long term ability to prevent disaster or at least cushion the blows when prevention is not possible.

If you want to go beyond a tinkering, if you want to go beyond a hobby of robotics and really tackle the grand challenges of robotics through rigorous research we need more than that. This is where school comes in.

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.

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.

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.