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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
NEUROPEPTIDE Y
which stimulates the process of vasoconstriction and has been linked to the regulation of feeding behaviour. Normally found in the…