Biopsychology
By: John P.J. Pinel
Edition: 8th ed.
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9780205832569
Subjects: Psychobiology; Methods; Brain; Textbooks; Brain Diseases; Physiopathology; Psychophysiology; Behavior; Physiology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 516-563) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Biopsychology as a neuroscience; title: Evolution, genetics, and experience; title: Anatomy of the nervous system; title: Neural conduction and synaptic transmission; title: The research methods of biopsychology; title: The visual system; title: Mechanisms of perception : hearing, touch, smell, taste, and attention; title: The sensorimotor system; title: Development of the nervous system; title: Brain damage and neuroplasticity; title: Learning, memory, and amnesia; title: Hunger, eating, and health; title: Hormones and sex; title: Sleep, dreaming, and circadian rhythms; title: Drug addiction and the brain; title: Lateralization, language, and the split brain; title: Biopsychology of emotion, stress, and health; title: Biopsychology of psychiatric disorders.