- application of the principle of biology to the study of mental processes and behavior
Physiological Psychology
- study of neural mechanisms of perception and behavior through direct manipulation of the brains of nonhuman animal subjects in controlled experiments
Psychiatry
- branch of medicine
- exists to study, prevent and treat mental disorders in human
Psychotherapy
- application of specialized psychological methods to the treatment of diagnosed mental disorders or to the problems of a person's daily adjustment
Psychotropics
- subfield of medicine that deals with the various pharmacological agents
- such as antidepressants, anti-anxiety, anti-manic, and antipsychotic agents utilized to affect behavior, mood and feelings
Psychosurgery
- branch of medicine
- involves the surgical severing and chemical alterations of brain fibers with the purpose of modifying psychological disturbances and other behavior aberrations
Social Psychology
- merged the discipline of Sociology and Anthropology
Psycholinguistics
- or psychology of language
- study of psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use and understand language
