Definition of Neuropsychology

1. Noun. The branch of psychology that is concerned with the physiological bases of psychological processes.


Definition of Neuropsychology

1. Noun. A branch of neurology and of clinical psychology that investigates the physiological basis of psychological processes. ¹

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Definition of Neuropsychology

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Medical Definition of Neuropsychology

1. A branch of psychology which investigates the correlation between experience or behaviour and the basic neurophysiological processes. The term neuropsychology stresses the dominant role of the nervous system. It is a more narrowly defined field than physiological psychology or psychophysiology. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Neuropsychology

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neuroprotector
neuroprotectors
neuropsychiatric
neuropsychiatrist
neuropsychiatrists
neuropsychiatry
neuropsychodynamic
neuropsychodynamics
neuropsychologic disorder
neuropsychologic test
neuropsychological
neuropsychological tests
neuropsychologist
neuropsychologists
neuropsychology (current term)
neuropsychopathic
neuropsychopathy
neuropsychopharmacologist
neuropsychopharmacologists
neuropsychopharmacology
neuropter
neuroptera
neuropteral
neuropteran
neuropterans
neuropteris
neuropteron
neuropterous
neuropterous insect

Literary usage of Neuropsychology

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Risk Assessment for Neurobehavioral Toxicity edited by Bernard Weiss, Jurg Elsner (1997)
"Neurobehavioral effects of toxic exposures. In: Clinical Syndromes in Adult neuropsychology: The Practitioner's Handbook (White RD, ed). ..."

2. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1921)
"... not rob the monadic formula of its significance for neuropsychology ; it is ... and with these the facts of neuropsychology acquire a new significance. ..."

3. Rural Substance Abuse: State of Knowledge & Issues edited by Elizabeth B. Robertson (1999)
"The neuropsychology Handbook- Behavioral and Clinical Perspectives New York: Springer, 1986 pp 376-409 Sarvela, PD, and McClendon, EJ Indicators of rural ..."

4. The Interpretation of dreams by Sigmund Freud (1913)
"We learn from neuropsychology that an important part in the functional activity of the apparatus is attributed to such regulations through the qualitative ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"... is being discovered: Lake Restoration Systems Approach to Environmental Pollution Interstellar Molecules and Chemistry The neuropsychology of Feeding ..."

6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1905)
"The study of the various mental and reflex phenomena, in the light of these relations, he suggests should form a new department, neuropsychology and ..."

7. Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People: A Report of the Surgeon General by M. Joycelyn Elders (1997)
"European perspectives in psychology, clinical, health, stress and anxiety, neuropsychology, psychophysiology. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1990. ..."

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