psychoelectronics
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psychoelectronics (uncountable)
- The use of electrical stimuli to alter someone's mental state.
- 1964, The Year's Best S-F, volume 9, page 373:
- 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, […]
- 1968, Proceedings, volume 2, page 1177:
- What should be subsumed under this concept of psychoelectronics? Certainly the pioneer activities of electroconvulsive therapy and electroencephalography belong.
- 1972, Quarterly journal of management development, volumes 3-4, page 6:
- 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 […]