Eventually, a doctor identified the problem as Alzheimer's disease, a slow deterioration of mental faculties.

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You can easily and inexpensively avoid guardianship or conservatorship proceedings by executing durable powers of attorney while you still have your mental faculties.

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In it, Peter Elbow encourages you to separate the writing process from the revising process as they require two entirely different mental faculties.

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The mother's lawyer, Fabian Farias, said Edith was "not in full control of her mental faculties" and said her physical and psychological wellbeing were in danger.

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Superior mental faculties, such as language and the ability to engage in abstract problem solving, are the sort of explanations that are currently all the rage.

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Once the robot can do this the researchers plan to disrupt the memories in a bid to recreate the gradual loss of mental faculties seen in diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

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In his first political campaign for a seat as a circuit county judge, McCarthy published campaign literature falsely claiming that his opponent was 73, senile and guilty of financial corruption despite knowing that the gentleman was 66, in full control of his mental faculties and had never done anything that had so much as a whiff of corruption.

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