Biopsychology
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Allyn and Bacon,
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Publisher Address: | Boston |
Publication Dates: | c2003. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Edition: | 5th ed. |
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Carrier Form: | xxvi, 566 p.: col. ill. ; 29 cm. +1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) |
ISBN: | 0205349846 (hardcover) |
Index Number: | Q189 |
CLC: |
Q189 R338 B845 |
Call Number: | R338/P651/5th.ed. |
Contents: |
CD-ROM has title: Beyond the brain & behavior. Includes bibliographical references (p. 514-547) and indexes. pt. 1. What is biopsychology? -- 1. Biopsychology as a neuroscience : what is biopsychology, anyway? -- 1.1. What is biopsychology? -- 1.2. What is the relation between biopsychology and the other disciplines of neuroscience? -- 1.3. What types of research characterize the biopsychological approach? -- 1.4. What are the divisions of biopsychology? -- 1.5. Converging operations : how do biopsychologists work together? -- 1.6. Scientific inference : how do biopsychologists study the unobservable workings of the brain? -- 1.7. Critical thinking about biopsychological claims -- pt. 2. Foundations of biopsychology -- 2. Evolution, genetics, and experience : thinking about the biology of behavior -- 2.1. Thinking about the biology of behavior : from dichotomies to relations and interactions -- 2.2. Human evolution -- 2.3. Fundamental genetics -- 2.4. Behavioral development : the interaction of genetic factors and experience -- 2.5. The genetics of human psychological differences -- 3. The anatomy of the nervous system : the systems, structures, and cells that make up your nervous system -- 3.1. General layout of the nervous system -- 3.2. Cells of the nervous system -- 3.3. Neuroanatomical techniques and directions -- 3.4. The spinal cord -- 3.5. The five major divisions of the brain -- 3.6. Major structures of the brain -- 4. Neural conduction and synaptic transmission : how neurons send and receive symbols -- 4.1. The neuron's resting membrane potential -- 4.2. Generation and conduction of postsynaptic potentials -- 4.3. Integration of postsynaptic potentials and generation of action potentials -- 4.4. Conduction of action potentials -- 4.5. Synaptic transmission : chemical transmission of signals from one neuron to another -- 4.6. The neurotransmitters -- 4.7. Pharmacology of synaptic transmission -- 5. The research methods of biopsychology : understanding what biopsychologists do -- 5.1. Methods of visualizing the living human brain -- 5.2. Recording human psychophysiological activity -- 5.3. Invasive physiological research methods -- 5.4. Pharmacological research methods -- 5.5. Genetic engineering -- 5.6. Neuropsychological testing -- 5.7. Behavioral methods of cognitive neuroscience -- 5.8. Biopsychological paradigms of animal behavior -- pt. 3. Sensory and motor systems -- 6. The visual system : from your eyes to your cortex -- 6.1. Light enters the eye and reaches the retina -- 6.2. The retina and translation of light into neural signals -- 6.3. From retina to primary visual cortex -- 6.4. Seeing edges -- 6.5. Seeing color -- 7. Mechanisms of perception, conscious awareness, and attention : how you know the world -- 7.1. Principles of sensory system organization -- 7.2. Cortical mechanisms of vision -- 7.3. Audition -- 7.4. Somatosensation : touch and pain -- 7.5. The chemical senses : smell and taste -- 7.6. Selective attention -- 8. The sensorimotor system : how you do what you do -- 8.1. Three principles of sensorimotor function -- 8.2. Sensorimotor association cortex -- 8.3. Secondary motor cortex -- 8.4. Primary motor cortex -- 8.5. Cerebellum and basal ganglia -- 8.6. Descending motor pathways -- 8.7. Sensorimotor spinal circuits -- 8.8. Central sensorimotor programs -- pt. 4. Brain plasticity -- 9. Development of the nervous system : from fertilized egg to you -- 9.1. Phases of neurodevelopment -- 9.2. Postnatal cerebral development in human infants -- 9.3. Effects of experience on neurodevelopment -- 9.4. Neuroplasticity in adults -- 9.5. Disorders of neurodevelopment : autism and Williams syndrome -- 10. Brain damage and neuroplasticity : can the brain recover from damage? -- 10.1. Causes of brain damage -- 10.2. Neuropsychological diseases -- 10.3. Animals models of human neuropsychological diseases -- 10.4. Neuroplastic responses to nervous system damage : degeneration, regeneration, reorganization, and recovery -- 10.5. Neuroplasticity and the treatment of nervous system damage -- 11. Learning, memory, and amnesia : how your brain stores information -- 11.1. Amnesic effects of bilateral medial temporal lobectomy -- 11.2. Amnesia of Korsakoff's syndrome -- 11.3. Amnesia of Alzheimer's disease -- 11.4. Amnesia after concussion : evidence for consolidation -- 11.5. Neuroanatomy of object-recognition memory -- 11.6. The hippocampus and memory for spatial location -- 11.7. Where are memories stored? -- 11.8. Synaptic mechanisms of learning and memory -- 11.9. Conclusion : infantile amnesia and the biopsychologist who remembered H.M. -- pt. 5. Biopsychology of motivation -- 12. Hunger, eating, and health : why do many people east too much? -- 12.1. Digestion and energy flow -- 12.2. Theories of hunger and eating : set points versus positive incentives -- 12.3. Factors that determine what, when, and how much we eat -- 12.4. Physiological research on hunger and satiety -- 12.5. Body weight regulation : set points versus settling points -- 12.6. Human obesity -- 12.7. Anorexia nervosa -- 13. Hor |