NONVERBAL LEARNING DISORDER (NLD)
an acquisition incapability which is marked by limited skills in critical thinking and impediments in processing non-verbal data. This impacts…
NORMALIZATION PRINCIPLE
the idea which people with cognitive or tangible impairments shouldn't be denied cultural and carnal unions and engagement in societal…
NORTRIPTYLINE
noun. a tricyclic antidepressant, a so-called secondary tricyclic, which is the primary metabolic product of amitriptyline. Even though its clinical…
NREM SLEEP
non-rapid-eye-movement sleep: times of sleep wherein dreaming, as implied by rapid eye movements (REM), generally doesn't arise. During these times,…
NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS
one of the biggest of the septal nuclei, that is given dopaminergic innervation from the ventral tegmental region. Dopamine emitted…
NARCOTIC STUPOR
is the state of lethargy or limited mobility and decreased responsiveness which results after ingesting an opioid.
NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE (NCQA)
reviews and accredits the care plans of managed patients which was founded in 1979.
NATURAL CHILD 1
is one of the many ego states of a child in the context of transactional analysis, specifically they are characterized…
NATURAL WORK MODULE
is a model of work where either a team or individual within a team completes a meaningful sequence of tasks…
NAY-SAYING
is a type of bias where questions are answered negatively by participants irrespective of their content.
NEED DISTRIBUTION OF REWARDS
is the distribution of awards and rewards given to a group, to the groups members based on need completely ignoring…
NEGATIVE ACCELERATION
is the binary opposite to positive acceleration where a situation which should change the rate of development of a variable…
NEGATIVE PUNISHMENT
Is punishment which arises because a stimulus, circumstance or situation is removed as a consequence of a response from that…
NEO-FREUDIAN 1
such as U.S. psychoanalyst Karen Homey (1885 - 1952) and U.S. psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan (1892 - 1949). Neo-Freudian describes…
NERVE ROOT
are the part of the nerve body which connects directly to either the spinal cord or the brain.