PREMORBID SCHIZOPHRENIA
the quality of psychological, emotional, and physical operating within someone before the onset of schizophrenia.
PREMORTEM CLARITY
a state of cognitive alertness, following a time of clouded or mixed up cognition, which sometimes returns before death. Premortem…
PRENATAL COUNSELING
counseling rendered to couples or to single females who are pregnant, or planning for a pregnancy. Sometimes, it also encompasses…
PRENATAL DEVELOPMENTAL ANOMALY
a congenital irregularity which starts in the course of growth prior to birth.
PRENATAL INFLUENCE
any impact on the growing organism between conception and birth. Prenatal influences are inclusive of radiation impacts, maternal illnesses, substance…
PRENATAL MASCULINIZATION
the masculinizing impacts of androgens on fetal carnal anatomy and on neural pathways in the brain before birth.
PREOCCUPATION
noun. In a place of being lost in one's thoughts and self-absorbed, that spans from temporary absent-mindedness to an indication…
PREOPERATIONAL STAGE
with regard to Jean Piaget's theory, the second major occurrence of mental growth, approximately between 2 and 7 years old,…
PREOPERATIONAL THOUGHT
the representative, prelogical and intuitive thinking typical of kids in the second major phase of mental growth.
PREPAREDNESS
a hereditarily impacted predisposition for particular stimulants to be more sufficient than other people in inducing specific reactions.
PREPHALLIC
with regard to psychoanalytic theory, referencing the phases of psychosexual growth coming before the phallic phase.
PREPOTENT STIMULUS
any stimulant which is superior to any other rivaling stimulant in which it is more probable of obtaining attention or…
PREPULSE INHIBITION
reduction of a reflex reaction by displaying a weak stimulant just prior to the strong stimulant which induces the reaction.
PRERELEASE ANXIETY STATE
anxiety felt by someone who is nearing release from an institutional facility and re-emergence into the tangible daily world.
PRESCRIPTION PRIVILEGE
the legal privilege to prescribe drugs and other medicines required for the remediation of medical or cognitive health troubles.