Description
Book SynopsisNeil R. Carlson pursued his undergraduate studies at the University of Illinois. He had planned to study nuclear physics, but when he discovered in an Introductory Psychology course that psychology was really a science, he decided that was what he wanted to do. Before changing his major, Carlson talked with several professors and visited their laboratories, and when he saw what physiological psychologists do, he knew that he had found his niche. He stayed on at Illinois and received his Ph.D. Then, after a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Iowa, Carlson came to the University of Massachusetts, where he taught throughout his entire career. He retired from UMass in the fall of 2004, but continues to keep up with developments in the field of behavioral neuroscience and to revise this book.
As an undergraduate psychology major at Cornell University, Melissa A. Birkett discovered courses in biopsychology, behavior, endocrinolog
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Structure and Functions of Cells of the Nervous System
- Structure of the Nervous System
- Psychopharmacology and Neurotransmitters
- Methods and Strategies of Research
- Vision
- Audition, the Body Senses, and the Chemical Senses
- Control of Movement
- Sleep and Biological Rhythms
- Reproductive and Parental Behavior
- Emotion
- Ingestive Behavior
- Learning and Memory
- Human Communication
- Disorders of the Developing Nervous System
- Neurological Disorders
- Schizophrenia and the Affective Disorders
- Stress and Anxiety Disorders
- Substance Abuse
