lucid intervals
Sane between episodes
Lucid intervals are periods of mental clarity between episodes of confusion, unconsciousness, or insanity.
In medicine, a patient with a head injury may have a lucid interval before symptoms worsen.
In law, the term matters for determining whether someone had capacity to make a will or contract during a temporary return to soundness of mind: She signed the document during a lucid interval.
- sanityMental soundness
- sound mindMental clarity and stability
- moment of clarityInstant of sudden understanding
- pausesTemporary cessations of activity
- coherenceLogical internal consistency
rationality · competency · last will · clearheadedness · clarity · awareness · legal accountability · informed consent · periods · gaps · consciousness · coming to · in and out · breaks · brief respite · comprehension · cognition · perceptions
lucid intervalsconfusion
Mental disorientation or bewilderment
delirium · stupor · dementia · psychotic episodes · mental fog
lucid intervalspersistent vegetative state
Prolonged unconsciousness with wakefulness
lucid intervalsincapacity
Lack of ability
incompetence · mental incapacity · unsound mind · non compos mentis · diminished capacity
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