behaviorceutical

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An activity that can improve an individual's mental health. neologism
    — We see this commercialization as the critical final step in translating the research documenting the health-damaging effects of psychosocial risk factors and the potential of behavioral interventions to ameliorate those effects into commercial behavioral products—analogous to the pharmaceutical industry's drug products—that can be widely distributed—by a new "behaviorceutical" industry?—to prevent disease and improve the health of massesof people around the world.

词形变化

behaviorceuticals plural behaviourceutical alternative,Commonwealth

词源

Blend of behavior + pharmaceutical. Coined by behavioural neuroscientist Kelly Lambert in 2011.
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