psycho-cerebral

C2+ Topic:Mind & Cognition
US /ˌsaɪkoʊ səˈriːbrəl/ UK /ˌsaɪkəʊ ˈserɪbrəl/
adj

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    relating jointly to mental phenomena and the brain, especially to correlations between psychological and cerebral events

    Russell proposed a psycho-cerebral parallelism between mental qualities and physical events in the brain.

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Synonyms
1 adj · relating jointly to mental... psychocerebralmind-brain
Word family
Related forms psychophysicalcerebralneuropsychological

Etymology

Formed from psycho- ("mind, mental activity"), from Ancient Greek psyche, + cerebral ("of the brain"), from Latin cerebrum. The compound has been used in medical and philosophical writing for proposed relations between mental and neural processes.

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