Mind Health Dictionary

(1) The seat of consciousness of the human BRAIN. The mind understands, reasons and initiates action and is also the source of emotions. This is a simplistic de?nition for a concept that has been and continues to be the subject of vigorous debate among theologians, philosophers, biologists, psychologists, psychiatrists and other doctors, their arguments being too complex for inclusion in a dictionary’s de?nition.

(2) MIND: The National Association for Mental Health, a voluntary charitable body that works in the interests of those with MENTAL ILLNESS, advising, educating and campaigning for and supporting them.

a voluntary association, registered as a charity that promotes the welfare of those with *mental illness through advice, education, campaigning, and the provision of resources. It was founded in 1946 as the National Association for Mental Health.

mineralocorticoid n. see corticosteroid.