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DUAL ATTITUDES

The two attitudes held by a person about the same object that are in contradiction with each other.

DUAL-TASK PERFORMANCE

Looks at performing 2 tasks concurrently to examine the nature of processing limitations and strategies to cordinate performance. See dual

DUSKY STANDARD

The defendent's competency to stand trial is related to the ability to understand the criminal procedings and to reasonably assist

DYNAMIC CORE

The theoretical construct with a subset of neurons in the thalamocortical system of the brain supporting conscious experience. See complexity

DYNAMOGENESIS

1. Develeopment of force in the nerves or muscles. 2. A sensori-motor principle that changes in motor responses are related

DYSFUNCTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH SLEEP, SLEEP STAGES, OR PARTIAL AROUSAL*

One of the 4 basic types of sleep disorders where the reactions are physiological rather than abnormal.

DYSOREXIA

A distortion of normal appetite or eating patterns., See eating disorder.

DYSPNEA

Having a shortness of breath or breathing difficulty not produced by high altitude, exertion or other identifiable cause.

DYSTROPHY

1. A degenrative disorder from defective nutrition. 2. A wasting disorder. See muscular dystrophy.

DAMPING

noun. A decrease of the magnitude of vibrations, frequently because of energy absorption by the encompassing medium.

DARWINISM

noun. The theory of evolution by natural selection, as initially brought about by British naturalists Alfred Russell Wallace and Charles

DAUBERT V MERRELL DOW PHARMACEUTICALS INC

a case which generates an effective ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1993 stipulating that Federal Rules of Evidence,

DEAFFERENTATION

noun. The lacerating or retraction of axons or neurons that facilitate urges toward a specific nervous system construction.

DEATHBED ESCORTS AND VISIONS

The auditory and visual sights experienced by those near death of relatives coming to guide them through this life to

DECENTRALIZATION

Removing people from a central base to outlying areas.

DANCE EPIDEMIC

a sensation wherein supposed abrupt and uncontrollable dancing stems throughout a large portion of a populace due to a contagion.

DASEIN

proposed by German philosopher Martin Heidegger, the specific type of being that develops in people.

DAUERSCHLAF

noun. A kind of therapy wherein extended sleep in elicited via drugs. It has been employed in the remediation of

DEAF-MUTE

noun. A noncurrent and dyslogistic term for someone who can't talk, or decides not to , due to hereditary or

DEATH-QUALIFIED JURY

The jury that contains people capable of handling down a death penalty. See Wainright vs. Witt.