Meanings
- uncountableThe use of electrical stimuli to alter someone's mental state.
What should be subsumed under this concept of psychoelectronics? Certainly the pioneer activities of electroconvulsive therapy and electroencephalography belong.
1968, Proceedings, volume 2, page 11772 more examples
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 373The 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
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