Definitions
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- adjective Of or relating to the relationships among behavioral, psychosocial, and biological processes, as in the progression or treatment of a disease.
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- adjective Pertaining to the
biological causes ofbehavior .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A biobehavioral model distinguishing romantic love and sexual desire.
Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011
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Believe it or not, "parents are the No. 1 influence" on teen drinking behavior, says Laura Dean-Mooney, national president of MADD.Much of the campaign is built around research conducted by Robert Turrisi, a professor of biobehavioral health at Pennsylvania State University.
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Coprolalia, in which patients curse or spit out racial epithets uncontrollably, "gets a lot of attention in movies and TV but in fact is actually quite rare, occurring in only about 10% of Tourette's patients," says John Piacentini, UCLA professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences.
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Believe it or not, "parents are the No. 1 influence" on teen drinking behavior, says Laura Dean-Mooney, national president of MADD.Much of the campaign is built around research conducted by Robert Turrisi, a professor of biobehavioral health at Pennsylvania State University.
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A biobehavioral model distinguishing romantic love and sexual desire.
Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011
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There really has got to be a place for drugs especially since obesity has so many biobehavioral causes.
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Rimonabant Suspended in Europe 2008
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The objective of the 2000 study published in Psychosomatic Medicine, a journal of biobehavioral medicine, was to assess whether women with central fat distribution (as indicated by a high waist-to-hip ratio [WHR]), across arange of body mass indexes, display consistently heightenedcortisol reactivity to repeated laboratory stressors.
How your body shape determines your chronic stress reactions 2009
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The objective of the 2000 study published in Psychosomatic Medicine, a journal of biobehavioral medicine, was to assess whether women with central fat distribution (as indicated by a high waist-to-hip ratio [WHR]), across arange of body mass indexes, display consistently heightenedcortisol reactivity to repeated laboratory stressors.
How your body shape determines your chronic stress reactions 2009
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"We now have the ability to say with fairly good confidence, looking at an adolescent or a young adult person presenting with a particular constellation of risk factors, whether they're likely to get worse within two and a half years," said Tyrone Cannon, first author on the study and professor of psychology, psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Dr Bruce Naliboff, clinical professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, at UCLA, added: "The reason for the two different brain responses may date back to primitive days, when the roles of men and women were more distinct."
Archive 2005-11-01 Zoe Brain 2005
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