Biopsychology

Biopsychology as a neuroscience; evolution, genetics and experience - asking the right questions about the biology of behaviour; the anatomy of the nervous system; neural conduction and synaptic transmission; what biopsychologists do; the resaerch methods of biopsychology; human brain damage and animal models; the visual system - from eye to cortex; mechanisms of perception; the sensorimotor systema/central sensorimotor programmes; the biopsychology of eating and drinking; hormones and sex; sleep, dreaming and Circadian rhythms, drug addiction and reward circuits in the brain, memory and amnesia; neuroplasticity - development and learning and recovery from brain damage; lateralization, language, and the split brain; biopsychology of emotion, stress and mental illness.