Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to neurobiology, the biological study of nerve and brain function
WordNet
adj. of or relating to the biological study of the nervous system
adv. with respect to neurobiology; "explain the phenomenon neurobiologically"
Usage examples of "neurobiological".
In fact the term is used rather loosely in the neurobiological literature.
What is more, association-ism, initially a psychological theory, became a neurobiological one as well in the hands of the Montreal psychologist Donald Hebb, whose book The Organization of Behaviour, published in 1949, explicitly offered a cellular, neural version of associationism.
But the enthusiastic reductionist manifesto with which the project began has not so far yielded great neurobiological dividends in the form of universal mechanisms of the sort which E.
McIlwainian techniques of the 1950s were restored to neurobiological fashion in the late 1970s.
Nonetheless certain important general neurobiological principles have emerged from the last decades of experimentation, on chicks, on the hippocampus, on Aplysia, and on many other experimental models which I have not found space to mention here.
Since according to the steadily lengthening list of benchmarks being provided by the instrumentation there was no neurobiological basis for such enlargement, it had to be a scanner error.
It was a classic piece of early twenty-first-century neurobiological mind-tinkering.
But the enthusiastic reductionist manifesto with which the project began has not so far yielded great neurobiological dividends in the form of universal mechanisms of the sort which E. coli provided.