Behavioral Neuroscience
Published on 13. September 2016
Book
Hardback
DCXLIV, 644 pages
978-1-60535-418-7 (ISBN)
Description
Behavioral Neuroscience, Eighth Edition reveals the fascinating relationships between the brain and behavior. It offers a broad perspective, encompassing cutting edge neuroscience, lucid descriptions of behavior, evolutionary and developmental perspectives, and clinical applications of research. The authors have striven in the latest revision to lay bare the neuroscience concepts underlying behavior with concision and clarity.
Special Features:
Special Features:
- Learning is supported by hundreds of original illustrations that make it easy to understand structures, mechanisms, and processes in the brain
- Every chapter includes a special feature called "The Cutting Edge" that highlights an up-to-the-moment discovery or technical innovation, while illustrating the logic and methodology of experimentation and hypothesis testing
- Each chapter ends with a unique feature, the "Visual Summary," a poster-like layout that provides a graphical review of the major topics of the chapter and directs students to the figures and online animations that reinforce each point.
- The text is supported by a rich array of internet-based resources.
- Over 500 new citations keep the text current
- Thorough and reader-friendly, Behavioral Neuroscience, Eighth Edition
Reviews / Votes
"I am greatly impressed by Breedlove's ability to present this material to psychology students, who may not have much prior biology background, in a way that makes it engaging and approachable, including clinical examples, without sacrificing accuracy or neglecting to acknowledge the complexities and remaining challenges. The book is up-to-date, with nice examples of the most recent findings in the field covered by the 3 chapters I have had the opportunity toread. I will most likely switch to this book from Pinel's Biopsychology, which I have been using for decades." --Susan Bachus, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
"This textbook is written in a way to engage the student reader and allow the student to apply what he or she has read to their own experiences. Each chapter quickly draws in the reader with a human-based story that relates to the chapter topic. As the reader is smoothly carried through the material, well-designed schematics and well-chosen research studies are used to improve understanding. " --Emma Sarro, Dominican College
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Persons
S. Marc Breedlove, the Barnett Rosenberg Professor of Neuroscience at Michigan State University, US, has written over 100 scientific articles investigating the role of hormones in shaping the developing and adult nervous system, publishing in journals including Science, Nature, Nature Neuroscience, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
Neil V. Watson is Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. He teaches biological psychology to hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students each year.
Neil V. Watson is Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. He teaches biological psychology to hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students each year.
Content
1. Behavioral Neuroscience: Scope and Outlook.- 2. Functional Neuroanatomy: The Nervous System and Behavior.- 3. Neurophysiology: The Generation, Transmission, and Integration of Neural Signals.- 4. The Chemistry of Behavior: Neurotransmitters and Neuropharmacology.- 5. Hormones and the Brain.- 6. Evolution of the Brain and Behavior.- 7. Life-Span Development of the Brain and Behavior.- 8. General Principles of Sensory Processing, Touch, and Pain.- 9. Hearing, Vestibular Perception, Taste, and Smell.- 10. Vision: From Eye to Brain.- 11. Motor Control and Plasticity.- 12. Sex: Evolutionary, Hormonal, and Neural Bases.- 13. Homeostasis: Active Regulation of the Internal Environment.- 14. Biological Rhythms, Sleep, and Dreaming.- 15. Emotions, Aggression, and Stress.- 16. Psychopathology: Biological Basis of Behavioral Disorders.- 17. Learning and Memory18. Attention and Higher Cognition.- 19. Language and Lateralization.- Appendix.