Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

The theory of child development based on the writings of Jean Piaget.  

Body build or body type, ectomorphy; endomorphy; mesomorphy. The shape and size of a person’s body.  

Physical therapy. The treatment of a disorder or condition by exercise, massage, heat treatment, infrared lamps or other external means, e.g. to restore strength or function after a disease or injury. The branch of treatment that employs physical methods to promote healing, including the use of light, infrared and ultraviolet rays, heat, electric current, massage,…

Subdivisions of a variety, alike in structure, but different in certain physiological, biochemical, or pathological ways. A particular group of parasites, mainly fungi, exhibit a distinctive adaptation to various types of crops belonging to a single host species. The International Botanical Congress, which took place in Amsterdam in 1935, advised that the term “physiological race”…

The temperature that is experienced as neither warm nor cold.  

Theories that claim that the cause of alcoholism is the result of a biological dysfunction. There are two forms: 1. genetotrophic theory and 2. endocrine theory.  

The normal functioning of all the systems of the body, physiology.  

A theoretical view that mental disorders are caused by somatic processes.  

A continuous tremor of the eyes.  

Maslow’s first set of human needs; also called the basic needs. Essential for survival, the include the need for food, water, rest, elimination, and air.