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psychoelectronics

psychoelectronics noun: the use of electrical stimuli to alter someone's mental state.

Noun

psychoelectronics (uncountable)

  1. The use of electrical stimuli to alter someone's mental state.
    • Among the subjects covered were psychochemicals, as specifics for mental disease, as education conditioners, as sleep substitutes, and as pleasure enhancers; current work in mapping the brain with psychoelectronics, […]1964, The Year's Best S-F, volume 9, page 373
    • What should be subsumed under this concept of psychoelectronics? Certainly the pioneer activities of electroconvulsive therapy and electroencephalography belong.1968, Proceedings, volume 2, page 1177

Origin of psychoelectronics

From psycho- + electronics.

Questions about psychoelectronics

What does psychoelectronics mean?
Psychoelectronics means the use of electrical stimuli to alter someone's mental state.
What part of speech is psychoelectronics?
Psychoelectronics is a noun.

Words near psychoelectronics in the dictionary

  1. psychoeducator
  2. psychoeducators
  3. psychoeffect
  4. psychoeffects
  5. psychoelectronic
  6. psychoelectronics
  7. psychoemotional
  8. psychoempirical
  9. psychoendocrine
  10. psychoendocrinologic
  11. psychoendocrinological

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