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environmental therapy

therapy that addresses the client’s interaction with his or her physical or social surroundings (or both) in an effort to promote greater cognitive, affective, and behavioral health. See milieu therapy; therapeutic community.

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cortical–subcortical motor loop

cortical–subcortical motor loop

a loop, made up of projections between the motor cortex and structures in the basal ganglia and the thalamus, that monitors and sequences ongoing motor behaviors.