BIOTECHNOLOGY
a. broad field of study which employs the latest techniques in manufacturing biological or bio-related products fit for human needs.…
BIPOLAR RATING SCALE
n. a diagnostic scale for screening and evaluating a bipolar disorder. This rating scale features opposite terms at each end…
BISEXUAL BEHAVIOR
n. the behavior of a person who is attracted to both males and females as partners. The attraction may be…
BLACKOUT LEVEL
n. the saturation point at which a person totally loses consciousness. For instance, a blackout period could occur after a…
BLEULER'S THEORY
n. a psychoanalytic-based theory which proposes four underlying symptoms necessary in diagnosing schizophrenia. As symptoms of the mind common to…
BLOCH'S LAW
n. in vision, refers to the temporal law of summation which describes how the duration of time must be doubled…
BODY DISFIGUREMENT
n. an obvious defect in appearance which is visible to the naked eye. It may be a congenital malformation or…
BODY POSITIONING
n. the notion that a person's posture and body position can affect functions such as learning, memory, recall, and recovery.…
BORDERLINE SCHIZOPHRENIA
n. historically, refers to a condition wherein the patient is mostly in-touch with reality, yet inconsistently shows symptoms of schizophrenia…
BOUND MORPHEME
n. in linguistics, refers to a morpheme that cannot stand alone but rather needs to be attached to a root…
BRACHIUM CONJUNCTIVUM
n. A fibrous band of tissue which forms the rostral part of the superior cerebellar peduncle. It extends from the…
BRAIN CENTER
n. any of the areas and regions of the brain which are known to perform one or more specific functions.…
BRAIN POTENTIAL
n. the electrical potential which occurs in brain cells, enabling them to transmit impulses to and from the central nervous…
BRAIN-WAVE THERAPY
n. in alternative therapy, refers to the stimulation of specific sound waves in order to enhance learning,memory, relaxation, and sleep.…
BREATHING RETRAINING
in behavior therapy, refers to slow, diaphragmatic breathing which is taught in different methods such as therapist modeling or corrective…
BRIGHTNESS CONSTANCY
n. a condition of maintaining perceptual constancy in viewing familiar objects. Thus, anything familiar to the eye (like a blank…
BRODMANN'S CYTOARCHITECTONIC AREA
n. the pattern used as a basis for mapping out the cerebral cortex as Brodmann's area. It is architecturally based…