Biopsychology (7th Edition, Paperback)

Part One. What is Biopsychology?
1. Biopsychology as a Neuroscience: What is Biopsychology Anyway?

Part Two. Foundations of Biopsychology
2. Evolution, Genetics, and Experience: Thinking about the Biology of Behavior
3. The Anatomy of the Nervous System: The System, Structures, and Cells That Make Up Your Nervous System
4. Neural Conduction and Synaptic Transmission: How Neurons Send and Receive Signals
5. The Research Methods of Biopsychology: Understanding What Biopsychologists Do

Part Three. Sensory and Motor Systems
6. The Visual System: How We See
7. Mechanisms of Perception: Hearing, Touch, Smell, Taste, and Attention: How You Know the World
8. The Sensorimotor System: How You Move

Part Four. Brain Plasticity
9. Development of the Nervous System: From Fertilized Egg to You
10. Brain Damage and Neuroplasticity: Can the Brain Recover from Damage?
11. Learning, Memory, and Amnesia: How Your Brain Stores Information

Part Five. Biopsychology of Motivation
12. Hunger, Eating, and Health: Why Do Many People Eat Too Much?
13. Hormones and Sex: What’s Wrong with the Mamawawa?
14. Sleep, Dreaming, and Circadian Rhythms: How Much Do You Need to Sleep?
15. Drug Addiction and the Brain’s Reward Circuits

Part Six. Disorders of Cognition and Emotion
16. Lateralization, Language, and the Split Brain: The Left Brain and the Right Brain of Language
17. Biopsychology of Emotion, Stress, and Health: Fear, the Dark Side of Emotion
18. Biopsychology of Psychiatric Disorders: The Brain Unhinged





John P.J. Pinel
(University of British Columbia)