The fourth edition of Biopsychology is a clear, engaging introduction to current biopsychological theory and research, It is intended for use as a primary text in one or two-semester courses in biopsychology--variously entitled Biopsychology, Physiological Psychology, Brain and Behavior, Pshychobiology, Behavioral Neuroscience, or Behavioral Neurobilolgy.
The defining feature of Biopsychology is its unique combination of biopsychological science and personal, reader-oriented disourse, It is a textbook that is "untextbooklike." Rather than introducing biopsychology in the usual textbook fashion, it weaves the fundamentals of biopsychology together with clinical case studies, social issues, personal implications, and humorous anecdotes. It tries to be a friendly mentor who speaks directly to the reader and enthusiastically relates recent advances in biopsychological science.
1. Biopsychology as a neuroscience
2. Evolution, genetics, and experience: asking the right
Questions about the biologyh of behavior
3. The anatomy of the nervous system
4. Neural conduction and synaptic transmission
5. What biopsychologists do: The research methods of
biopshychology
6. Human brain damage and animal models
7. The visual system: from eye to cortex
8. Mechanisms of perception, conscious awareness, and
Attention
9. The sensorimotor system
10. The biopsychology of eating and drinking
etc.