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How did 19th century research on the nervous system pave the way for the eventual rise of psychology as a formal discipline?

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Psychological effects of controlled substance use

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Neuropsychological sciences and interdisciplinary fields of brain studies have been going on throughout the 19th and 20th century, through now. The main purpose of conducting such studies had been the medical knowledge of the brain structures and their processes for gaining insight into multiple and interconnected or independent behavioral and psychological mechanisms, together with typical and atypical functions which might ...

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