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NURSING HOME

a long-term care institution which supplies round-the-clock nursing care as well as supportive services for individuals with ongoing impairments or

N-AFF

is an abbreviation for need for affiliation.

NARCISSISM

is described as an exaggerated opinions of ones own contribution to society or group, otherwise known as an excessive self-love

NARRATIVE THEORY

is an umbrella term used to describe any theory of consciousness which states that beliefs arise as a part of

NATIONAL PRACTITIONER DATA BANK

is a national database which is maintained by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services which keeps an archive

NATURAL FERTILITY

is the ability for an organism to reproduce another of its species.

NATURALISTIC FALLACY 1

is an error which is made when researchers or lay persons attempt to define a property or characteristic in terms

NECKER CUHE

was first proposed by Louis Albert Necker (1730 - 1804) who was a Swiss crystallographer which first proposed a line

NEED FOR POWER

is the strong desire to seek and secure power over other people.

NEGATIVE BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION

in discrete theoretical probability distribution, it describes the distribution of N number of trials which will occur before the Rth

NEGATIVE SCHIZOPHRENIA

is a form of Schizophrenia which was first proposed by U.S. psychiatrist Nancy C. Andreasen and Scott A. Olsen in

NEIL V BIGGERS

was an important case in U.S. legal history which resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court detailing criteria for a valid

NEO-MALTHUSIAN

the idea that family planning and the effective use of contraception can support population control and without these restrictions, populations

NEOTENY

in the context of evolution is the is the continuation of juvenile characteristics into the adulthood period of an ancestral

NERVOUS

is an emotional state or feeling of anxious apprehension before completing an act, otherwise known as an excitable state.

NEURAL

implies the nervous system.

NEURAL PATHWAY

describes any route which is followed by a nerve impulse which travels through either the central or peripheral nerve fibres

NEUROBIOLOGY

is a strand of the larger subject Biology which focusses on the study of the nervous system.

NEUROFIBROMATOSIS

see von Recklinghausen's disease.

NEUROLOGICAL EVALUATION SCALE (NES)

Was first devised in 1989 by U.S. psychiatrists Robert W. Buchanan and Douglas W. Heinrichs. The NES' primary goal is