Glossary M
Glossary M
MAOIs (Monoamine oxidase inhibitors) refer to the group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the enzyme monoamine oxidase (MAO) in the brain and raise the levels of certain neurotransmitters, such as norepinephrine, dopamine, and serotonin. MAOIs are potent anti-depressants thought to regulate chemicals in the central nervous system ; they should rarely be the first medication used because they may interact dangerously with many other medications, foods and beverages
Mapping refers to a very powerful enabling technique which allows people's own categorisations and understandings of an issue or a market to be exposed and explored. Mapping involves asking interviewees or group participants to sort or "map" objects or representations of objects according to how they are seen or thought of. In problem solving, Mapping is the set of correspondences between a source and target problem; how the two (2) problems "map" onto each other
Margaret F. Washburn, the first woman to earn her Ph.D. in psychology, graduated from Cornell University in 1898.