psychoelectronics

English

Etymology

From psycho- +‎ electronics.

Noun

psychoelectronics (uncountable)

1. The use of electrical stimuli to alter someone's mental state.
   • 1964, The Year's Best S-F, volume 9, page 373:

     Among the subjects covered were psychochemicals, as specifics for mental disease, as education conditioners, as sleep substitutes, and as pleasure enhancers; current work in mapping the brain with psychoelectronics, […]

   • 1968, Proceedings, volume 2, page 1177:

     What should be subsumed under this concept of psychoelectronics? Certainly the pioneer activities of electroconvulsive therapy and electroencephalography belong.

   • 1972, Quarterly journal of management development, volumes 3-4, page 6:

     The most distant prediction of the panel finds psychopharmacy and psychoelectronics unlikely to come into use to induce or augment learning before the 1990s, if at all […]

Related terms

• psychoelectronic
• psychotronics