Description |
xxiv, 584 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm |
Contents |
Biopsychology as a neuroscience -- Evolution, genetics, and experience -- Anatomy of the nervous system -- Neural conduction and synaptic transmission -- The research methods of biopsychology -- The visual system -- Mechanisms of perception : hearing, touch, smell, taste, and attention -- The sensorimotor system -- Development of the nervous system -- Brain damage and neuroplasticity -- Learning, memory, and amnesia -- Hunger, eating, and health -- Hormones and sex -- Sleep, dreaming, and circadian rhythms -- Drug addiction and the brain -- Lateralization, language, and the split brain -- Biopsychology of emotion, stress, and health -- Biopsychology of psychiatric disorders |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 516-563) and indexes |
Subject |
Psychobiology -- Textbooks.
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Psychophysiology -- methods.
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Behavior -- physiology.
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Brain -- physiology.
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Brain Diseases -- physiopathology.
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Genre/Form |
Textbooks.
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LC no. |
2010038756 |
ISBN |
9780205832569 (alk. paper) |
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0205832563 (alk. paper) |
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