As indicated by the U.S. top health spokesperson (1998), mental health is the effective execution of mental capacity, bringing about beneficial exercises, satisfying associations with other individuals, and giving the capacity to adjust to change and adapt to affliction. Isaac Ray, one of the thirteen[citation needed authors of the Psychiatric Association, additionally characterized mental cleanliness as "the craft of protecting the brain against all occurrences and impacts ascertained to decay its qualities, disable its energies, or unhinge its movements."