Biopsychology - Pinel, John P.J. (Boston Allyn and Bacon, 2000)
Table of Contents: Preface. To the Student. Chapter 1. Biopsychology as a Neuroscience -- Chapter 2. Evolution, Genetics, and Experience: Asking the Right Questions about the Biology of Behavior -- Chapter 3. The Anatomy of the Nervous System -- Chapter 4. Neural Conduction and Synaptic Transmission -- Chapter 5. What Biopsychologists Do: The Research Methods of Biopsychology -- Chapter 6. Human Brain Damage and Animal Models -- Chapter 7. The Visual System: From Eye to Cortex -- Chapter 8. Mechanisms of Perception, Conscious Awareness, and Attention -- Chapter 9. The Sensorimotor System -- Chapter 10. The Biopsychology of Eating and Drinking -- Chapter 11. Hormones and Sex -- Chapter 12. Sleep, Dreaming, and Circadian Rhythms -- Chapter 13. Drug Addiction and Reward Circuits in the Brain -- Chapter 14. Memory and Amnesia -- Chapter 15. Neuroplasticity: Development, Learning and Recovery from Brain Damage -- Chapter 16. Lateralization, Language, and the Split Brain -- Chapter 17. Biopsychology of Stress and Illness -- Epilogue. Appendices. References. Credits. Indexes.
Keywords: Psychobiology; Mind and body; Educational Foundation