CUSHING'S SYNDROME
founded by American surgeon Harvey W. Cushing, a set of indications corresponding to an ongoing overproduction of corticosteroid hormones, primarily…
CYBERNETIC EPISTEMOLOGY
an analysis that confronts the philosophical problems of epistemology in regard to computation, frequently by implementing computational knowledge representation and…
CYPROHEPTADINE
a drug which behaves as a histamine and serotonin antagonist and is employed for the remediation of allergy indicators, migraine…
CALIFORNIA ACHIEVEMENT TESTS (CAT)
n. a battery of multiple-choice tests designed to assess basic skills among students from Kindergarten to Grade 12. At 13…
CAMPBELL, DONALD THOMAS
(1916-1996) U.S. psychologist with a PhD in social psychology from University of California in Berkeley. He introduced standard concepts in…
CANNABIS PSYCHOSIS, CANNABIS INTOXICATION
n. a transient phenomenon which occurs while smoking or after ingesting cannabis. Clinically, it consists of feelings of enhanced well-being,…
CARCINOGEN
n. any cancer-causing substance which a person ingests or comes in contact with, directly. Also, any cancer-initiating agent which someone…
CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
n. a major organ-system which includes the heart, the blood vessels, and the entire circulatory system of the body. It…
CARISOPRODOL
n. a drug belonging to the class of propanediols. First introduced as an anxiolytic drug, it has now been developed…
CARUS TYPOLOGY
n. a classification of human body constitution into five types, namely: 1) the cerebral type, 2) the athletic type, 3)…
CASPAR HAUSER EXPERIMENT
n. any experimental procedure in which an animal is held captive, deprived of its natural surroundings, and exposed to very…
CATCH TRIAL
n. the design of a clinical trial in which part of the experiment would be to include blank items as…
CATEGORIZED LIST
n. a controlled list of items that is used in tests and experiments on memory. The list prompts a free…
CAUSATIVE VERB
n. a verb form which expresses a causal relationship between the subject and the object of a sentence. For example,…
CELL ASSEMBLY
n. In Hebbian theory, refers to a group of neurons organized as a single, functional unit. Through synaptic plasticity, the…
CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE (CES-D)
n. a self-administered screening test which is commonly-used to assess a person's depression quotient. On a 20-item rating scale, this…