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.
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…
DANCE EPIDEMIC
a sensation wherein supposed abrupt and uncontrollable dancing stems throughout a large portion of a populace due to a contagion.
DAUERSCHLAF
noun. A kind of therapy wherein extended sleep in elicited via drugs. It has been employed in the remediation of…
DEATH-QUALIFIED JURY
The jury that contains people capable of handling down a death penalty. See Wainright vs. Witt.