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palatability | |
palliationThe relief of pain and suffering. | |
palliative careThe care of patients with active, progressive, far advanced disease and limited prognosis and for whom the focus of care is the quality of life. | |
paranoid psychosisBehaviour that is out of touch with conventional reality. Bizarre behaviour in which the sufferer feels persecuted by others and can be dangerous to others. | |
parasympathetic nervous systemOne of the two divisions of the autonomic nervous system. Its activity has a calming effect, e.g. to lower heart rate. See also sympathetic nervous system. | |
partial reinforcementA schedule of reinforcement in which not every response is reinforced. For example, only one in 10 responses made by a rat might earn a pellet of food. | |
pathogenic paradigmThe conceptualisation of health in terms of disease. | |
pathway(of nervous system) A collection of axons physically located together within the central nervous system, rather like wires in a cable. An alternative name is tract. | |
Pavlovian conditioning | |
peptide bondThe covalent link between adjacent amino acids in peptides and proteins. | |