Description
Book SynopsisJohn Pinel is an Emeritus Professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. An award-winning teacher, he is the author of more than 200 scientific papers. He feels that Biopsychology is his major career-related accomplishment.
Steven Barnes is an Associate Professor of Teaching, and Associate Head of Undergraduate Affairs, in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. Steven is well-regarded for his work related to Online Learning Technologies, student mental health and wellbeing, and Bipolar Disorder (BD).
Table of ContentsPART I: WHAT IS BIOPSYCHOLOGY?
- Biopsychology as a Neuroscience
PART II: FOUNDATIONS OF BIOPSYCHOLOGY
- Evolution, Genetics, and Experience
- Anatomy of the Nervous System
- Neural Conduction and Synaptic Transmission
- The Research Methods of Biopsychology
PART III: SENSORY AND MOTOR SYSTEMS
- The Visual System
- Sensory Systems, Perception, and Attention
- The Sensorimotor System
PART IV: BRAIN PLASTICITY
- Development of the Nervous System
- Brain Damage and Neuroplasticity
- Learning, Memory, and Amnesia
PART V: BIOPSYCHOLOGY OF MOTIVATION
- Hunger, Eating, and Health
- Hormones and Sex
- Sleep, Dreaming, and Circadian Rhythms
- Drug Use, Drug Addiction, and the Brain's Reward Circuits
PART VI: DISORDERS OF COGNITION AND EMOTION
- Lateralisation, Language, and the Split Brain
- Biopsychology of Emotion, Stress, and Health
- Biopsychology of Psychiatric Disorders
