Long-Term Memory Retrieval
How stored knowledge is accessed and brought back into awareness. Covers retrieval cues, recall versus recognition, and interference at retrieval.
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Long-Term Potentiation and Memory
Studies LTP as a cellular model of memory, focusing on Hebbian plasticity and its molecular machinery.
Magnetoencephalography and Neural Dynamics
Magnetoencephalography and neural dynamics is the study of the brain's magnetic fields and the millisecond scale activity that underlies cognition, perception, …
Major Depressive Disorder
A mood disorder characterized by persistent sadness, anhedonia, fatigue, and cognitive disturbances lasting at least two weeks and impairing daily functioning. …
Mathematical Learning
Study of how children and adolescents acquire numerical, arithmetical, and mathematical reasoning skills.
Mathematics Anxiety
Mathematics anxiety disrupts numerical reasoning, working memory, and quantitative learning from early schooling into adulthood, covering origins, assessment, …
Meditation and Altered States of Consciousness
Changes in subjective experience produced by meditation, hypnosis, and psychoactive substances. Covers neural correlates and effects on attention and …
Memory Consolidation and Reconsolidation
The processes by which labile new memories become stable and integrated into long-term storage. Includes synaptic and systems consolidation and sleep-dependent …
Mental Health Stigma
The study of stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination directed at people with mental illness, including public, self, and structural stigma. Research examines …
Mentalization-Based Treatment
A psychodynamic treatment for borderline personality disorder that strengthens the capacity to understand one's own and others' mental states.
Metacognition
Awareness and monitoring of one's own cognitive processes, including judgments of learning and feelings of knowing. Covers metacognitive control and …
Middle Childhood Development
Investigation of psychological change from roughly ages six to twelve, including the development of logical reasoning, self-concept, and peer competence.
Midlife Development
Research on psychological growth and adjustment during middle adulthood, including generativity, career peaks, caregiving roles, and physical changes.
Military Psychology
Study of psychological factors in military settings, including combat stress, leadership, selection, and resilience.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
Combines mindfulness meditation with cognitive therapy to prevent depressive relapse by disengaging from ruminative thought patterns.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Jon Kabat-Zinn's structured eight-week program teaching nonjudgmental present-moment awareness to reduce stress and chronic pain.
Mood Stabilizer Therapy
Lithium and anticonvulsant agents used to prevent and treat manic and depressive episodes in bipolar disorder.
Moral Development
Study of how reasoning about right and wrong, moral emotions, and prosocial behavior develop across childhood and adolescence.
Motion Perception
The perception of movement and its direction, speed, and trajectory. Includes apparent motion, optic flow, biological motion, and motion-sensitive cortical …
Motivation Theories
Study of major theoretical frameworks explaining the direction, intensity, and persistence of goal-directed behavior.
Motivational Interviewing
A collaborative, evocation-based style for resolving ambivalence and strengthening change motivation in addiction and health behavior.
Motor Development
Study of the emergence and refinement of motor skills across infancy and childhood, including gross, fine, and perceptual-motor coordination.
Motor Systems and Movement Control
Covers hierarchical motor pathways from motor cortex and brainstem to spinal circuits that generate skilled movement.
Music Perception
The perceptual organization of musical sound, including pitch, rhythm, harmony, and melody. Covers musical expectation and the cognitive neuroscience of music.
Music Therapy
Employs music creation, listening, and improvisation to address emotional, cognitive, and social treatment goals.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
A personality disorder characterized by grandiosity, need for admiration, and limited empathy, with grandiose and vulnerable presentations. Research examines …
Narcolepsy
A neurological sleep disorder of excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, sleep paralysis, and hypnagogic hallucinations, linked to hypocretin deficiency. …
Narrative Therapy
Helps clients re-author dominant problem-saturated stories, externalizing problems to open space for alternative identities.
Neural Plasticity and Reorganization
How experience reshapes the brain's circuits throughout life, from synapse-level change to large-scale map reorganization, and the implications for learning, …
Neurocognitive Disorders
Explores the syndromes of cognitive decline and disruption - from major and mild neurocognitive disorder and delirium to the dementias, their brain mechanisms, …
Neuroinflammation and Mental Health
Exploring how brain inflammation shapes mood, cognition, and behavior across psychiatric and neurological conditions.
Neurolinguistics
The study of the neural substrates of language. Covers language lateralization, event-related brain potentials, and neuroimaging of language processing.
Neuromodulation Treatments
Brain-stimulation interventions including ECT, rTMS, tDCS, DBS, and VNS for treatment-resistant psychiatric disorders.
Neurons and Neural Signaling
Covers the structure and function of neurons, from dendritic integration to axonal output.
Neuropsychology
Study of brain-behavior relationships and the neural basis of cognitive, emotional, and motor functions.
Obedience to Authority
Study of compliance with explicit commands from authority figures and the situational conditions that promote or inhibit destructive obedience.
Object Recognition
The identification and categorization of visual objects. Research covers view-invariant recognition, feature integration, and deficits such as visual agnosia.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
A disorder of recurrent intrusive obsessions and repetitive compulsions performed to reduce anxiety. Research investigates its neurocircuitry in …
Occipital Lobe Visual Processing
Studies how striate and extrastriate visual cortex transform retinal input into contours, color, motion, and object perception.
Occupational Health Psychology
How psychosocial working conditions shape employee health and how organizations protect and restore wellbeing.
Offender Rehabilitation
Articles on evidence-based programs and principles for reducing reoffending, including risk assessment, treatment models, correctional interventions, and …
Open Science and Replication
Open science and replication cover transparency practices and the reproducibility movement in psychological research.
Opioid Use Disorder
A substance use disorder characterized by compulsive opioid use, tolerance, withdrawal, and severe social and health consequences. Research covers opioid …
Optimism and Pessimism
How optimistic and pessimistic thinking styles shape emotions, health, performance, and resilience, including explanatory style, cognitive biases, and …
Organizational Change
How people and organizations navigate transitions, covering the psychology of resistance, readiness, leadership, communication, and sustainable transformation.
Organizational Commitment
The psychological bonds that attach employees to organizations and how attachment forms, functions, and fades.
Organizational Culture
How shared values, norms, and assumptions shape behavior inside organizations, covering national and corporate culture, socialization, fit, change, and toxic …
Organizational Justice
How employees evaluate workplace fairness and how those judgments shape attitudes, behavior, and wellbeing.
Ostracism and Social Exclusion
The psychology of ostracism and social exclusion, from reflexive pain to chronic resignation, and their effects on needs, behavior, and health.
Oxytocin and Social Bonding
Studies oxytocin's influence on attachment, trust, and prosocial behavior across species.