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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
psychobiology
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By virtue of being interdisciplinary, psychobiology has some special problems not encountered in mainstream psychology.
▪ Fortunately more and more psychobiology is being done in this way.
▪ Good psychobiology, using the inferential approach, requires good psychology.
▪ Methodological problems in psychobiology are not going to go away.
▪ Methods in psychobiology A science is only as good as its methods.
▪ Since behavioural methods are central to psychobiology they are tackled first in this chapter.
▪ The history of psychobiology Contemporary psychobiology is a blend of two traditions of research and theory.
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psychobiology

n. 1 (context psychology biology English) The study of the biological basis for cognition and other mental processes 2 (context psychology English) The branch of psychology that interprets psychological phenomena in terms of adaptation to biological, environmental etc factors

Usage examples of "psychobiology".

Long before the rest of the psychiatric community converted, he was preaching the doctrine that psychobiology was the key to the etiology of mental illness and pharmacology was the key to treatment.

Progress in Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology 9, 85-124, 1980.