RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY
Specialization in the surgical field directed at reconstruction, enhancement, improvement, or replacement of defective or imperfect bodily structures. See also:…
RECURRENT COLLATERAL INHIBITION
A system of negative feedback which allows Renshaw cells to inhibit a neuron by communicating through a branched axon loop…
REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM
A type of legitimate, rational argument, by which a principle is disproven by demonstrating that it results in a contradiction,…
REFERENCED COGNITIVE TEST
Cognitive function examination which has been normalized, allowing performance to be compared among individuals.
REFLECTIVITY-IMPULSIVITY
Known as cognitive tempo, a cognitive approach that defines the extent to which a subject differs in their ability to…
REFRACTORY
Any disease or disability that resists treatment or fails to react to a prior efficacious therapy. In, neurophysiology, a neuron…
REGRESSION EQUATION
Equation which represents the association among the specific values of one variable and the noted values of a different variable.…
REHABILITATION ENGINEERING
A discipline of integrated areas of study in various fields which develop commodities, programs, and settings to help augment quality…
REINFORCEMENT THEORY
Any approach which is constructed to detail the system of reinforcement.
RELATIVE FREQUENCY
Proportional examination of frequency of some category of event to the total frequency of that event in all categories and…
RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM
Discriminating manager of the aldosterone biosynthetic pathway. Achieves its goals by increasing aldosterone production, as well as sodium retention, due…
REPETITION COMPULSION
Psychological phenomenon wherein a subject repeats or feels the need to reenact a trauma on a recurring basis.
REPRESENTATIONALISM
Also called representational realism, a philosophical concept broadly equivalent to the view of perception in the natural sciences. States that…
REPRODUCTIVE IMAGE
Mental image which is limited to one function- evocation of sights experienced previously, involving a fairly static representation of certain…
RESERVE CAPACITY
Discrepancy between a subject's maximal ability to perform a given psychological exercise and the actual performance of that exercise.