psychoelectronics
nounEtymology From psycho- + electronics.
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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:
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- The most distant prediction of the panel finds psychopharmacy and psychoelectronics unlikely to come into use to induce or augment learning before the 1990s, if at all […]1972, Quarterly journal of management development, volumes 3-4, page 6:
- Related terms
- psychoelectronic, psychotronics