LAMOTRIGINE
Although ineffective for treating acute maniac episodes it has gained acceptance as a single drug treatment for acute bipolar depression…
LANGUAGE DISABILITY
Also see general language disability it is the development or function with a significant difficulty with or impairment of language.
LATCHKEY CHILDREN
Children who have no adult supervision outside of school hours until a parent or caretaker arrives.
LATITUDE OF REJECTION
Positions an indvidual holds that allows them to reject certain behaviors.
LABELED LINES
Inputs to the brain that are nerve inputs and the brain conceptualized as each reporting only one particular type of…
LAND THEORY OF COLOR VISION
a theory that colour registration proceeds in the brain. Demonstrations such as the land effect suggest that various wave lengths…
LANGUAGE ESP
The ostensible phenomenon in which participants make an above chance number of correct calls or guesses about targets presented in…
LATENCY OF RESPONSE
The messure of time that occurs from the introduction of a stimulus and the following response or reaction time. Common…
LABELED-LINE THEORY OF TASTE CODING
The taste is perceived exclusively as a product of activity in that labelled line activity in neurons outside the labelled…
LACUNAR STROKE
Lacunar strokes account for about 20% of strokes, it is caused by a small arc: ions resulting from obstruction of…
LANDAU REFLEX
Absence of the reflex is a sign of a neurological disorder such as cerebral palsy or motor neurons disease. When…
LANGUAGE LOCALIZATION
Since 1861 it has been postulated that speech processing was localized near the third frontal convolution of the left hemisphere,…
LATENCY STAGE
A stage in the Psychosexual Development of a child starting around age 3 through puberty when sexual libido turns to…
LAURENCE-MOON-BIEDL SYNDROME
A degenerative disorder characterized by a degree of obsety, below average intelligence, retina abnormalities, and extra fingers or toes. Associated…
LADD-FRANKLIN THEORY
It is based on the notion that light of a certain wave length causes substances to be released from a…
LANDAU-KLEFFNER SYNDROME
Many children with the disorder experience seizures which generally disappear by adulthood, the syndrome usually occurs in children between the…