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psychobiˈology
Also with hyphen.
[f. psycho- + biology.]
The study of the biological basis of behaviour or mental phenomena; the interaction of mental and biological factors in an organism.
1902Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 65/2 This connection of vegetal and animal functions remains one of the obscurest in all psycho-biology. 1923A. Meyer in E. Winters Coll. Papers (1952) IV. 244 In connection with psychiatric work, but from an angle quite different from Freudism, there had developed during the last twenty-five years a less spectacular objective psychobiology. 1946[see sociobiology]. 1966New Scientist 24 Feb. 464/3 Dr Allan Jacobson..reported that, by taking extracts from the brains of rats that had been taught to perform certain tasks, and injecting them into untrained rats, the latter seemed to acquire a degree of memory for these tasks... New experiments, however, undertaken by five workers from the departments of psychobiology, and of molecular and cell biology, University of California, Irvine, appear to cast considerable doubts on the validity of Dr Jacobson's conclusions. 1975Sci. Amer. Dec. 7/2 (Advt.), A Primer of Psychobiology is a brief, informative introduction to what is known about the structure and function of the nervous system and how these relate to behavior.
So ˌpsychobioˈlogic, -ˈlogical adjs., of or pertaining to psychobiology; both psychological and biological; ˌpsychobioˈlogically adv., in a psychobiological manner; in relation to psychobiology; psychobiˈologist, an expert or specialist in psychobiology.
1901Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. XII. 206 The experiments must conform to the psycho-biological character of an animal if sane results are to be obtained. 1934,1935[see field n. 17 d]. 1935Adams & Zener tr. Lewin's Dynamic Theory of Personality iii. 79 The environment is..to be defined not physically but psychobiologically, that is, according to its quasi-physical, quasi-social, and quasi-mental structure. 1941Amer. Speech XVI. 216 All human behavior is a social psychobiological continuum in which there is no real dichotomy. 1946Nature 24 Aug. 252/2 This is unfortunate at a time when a lot of young men are coming out of the medical services with the idea that there is something in psychosomatic medicine... It is high time we began to try to find out what this is instead of mouthing big phrases such as ‘psychobiologic unit’. 1961Webster, Psychobiologist. 1971Amer. Jrnl. Psychiatry CXXVIII. 706/1 The psychobiologic changes occurring during the [menstrual] cycle do not appear to produce a specific behavioral effect since the form and severity of the symptomatology differ among the various studies. 1973Sci. Amer. Sept. 25/1 We strike a balance..in graduate medical education between the preparation of technologically based specialists and psychobiologically trained generalists. 1977Proc. R. Soc. Med. LXX. 690/1 The underlying pathology of anorexia nervosa may comprise one extreme of the psychobiological nutritional disturbances possibly common to many cases of ‘periodic oedema’. 1977D. M. Rumbaugh et al. in Language Learning by Chimpanzee iv. 89 Yerkes was a very insightful, pioneering psychobiologist. 1979Time 2 Apr. 47/2 People with titles like biochemist, psychobiologist, neurophysiologist and psychopharmacologist are..replacing traditional psychiatrists as chairmen of hospital psychiatry departments. |