(名詞) 可改善精神健康狀態的身體活動,尤指藉由降低壓力或焦慮來改善精神狀況,進而矯正壞習慣和不好的行為。亦寫成 behaviourceutical (英式拼法)。這個字是由 behavior (行為) + pharmaceutical (藥品,藥物) 拼綴而成。
引句:
Behavioural problems in families, schools, workplaces and public places are on the rise. In turn, it has given rise to new market in the form of ‘behaviourceutical’ being practiced by clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, family therapists and social psychologists.
—Lalit Kishore, “Behaviourceutical is here to cure you of your bad habits and behaviours,” Merinews, October 28, 2017
“I made up this term called ‘behaviorceuticals,’ instead of pharmaceuticals, in the sense that when we move and when we engage in activities, we change the neurochemistry of our brain in ways that a drug can change the neurochemistry of our brain,” said Kelly Lambert, a neuroscientist at the University of Richmond.
—“How busy hands can alter our brain chemistry,” CBS News, March 18, 2018
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