WELLNESS CONCEPT
the idea that health care programs ought to be actively engaged in the support of wellness, seen as a dynamic…
WERNICKE-KORSAKOFF SYNDROME
a syndrome stemming from persistent alcoholism or nutritional deficiencies, correlated to deficiency of vitamin B. The syndrome is marked by…
WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES
a variation on the ordinary least squares processes utilized within the general linear design wherein the variants are weighted by…
WECHSLER ADULT INTELLIGENCE SCALE (WAIS)
an intelligence test for people from 16 years to 89 years. An alteration and substitution of the Wechsler-Belle-Vue intelligence scale,…
WERTHER SYNDROME
cluster suicides elicited by the suicide of a widely-recognized or popular figure whose demise is supplied with significant media coverage.…
WELL-DEFINED PROBLEM
a problem with obvious initial circumstances and objectives and principle techniques for progressing from the previous to the latter.
WERNICKE'S APHASIA
a loss of the capacity to understand noises or speech , specifically to comprehend or repeat spoken language and to…
WERNICKE'S AREA
an area within the posterior temporal gyrus of the left hemisphere of the brain's cerebrum, consisting of nerve tissue correlated…
WHEELCHAIR
noun. a chair that has wheels modeled to accelerate the mobility of people not capable of walking without help. One…
WHITE MATTER
portions of the nervous system made up of nerve fibers which are encaged in a myelin sheath, that renders a…
WESTERN APHASIA BATTERY (WAB)
a test battery which assesses a multitude of features of language-spontaneous speech, understanding, repetition, terming, and so forth, is utilized…
WELL-BEING
noun. a state of happiness, being pleased and content, low degrees of anguish, generally positive physical and cognitive health and…
WHIPSAWING
1. escalating productivity by joining two or more people or groups on a paired job, frequently with a competitive nature.…
WHITE, ROBERT W
American psychologist. White received his doctorate in psychology at Harvard University, working alongside Henry A. Murray, a renowned character researcher.…
WHISKER BARREL
a barrel-shaped line of neurons within the somatosensory region of some animals which are recipient to data from a specific…
WERNICKE'S ENCEPHALOPATHY
a neurological disorder elicited by a deficiency of vitamin B. The principal indicators are confusion, occulomotor irregularities, and ataxia. The…
WEBER'S EXPERIMENT
an experiment where it was shown that discrimination of weight was a constant fraction of 1/40 between two weights.