Part One
What Is Biopsychology?
1 Biopsychology as a Neuroscience .............................. 1
What Is Biopsychology, Anyway?
Part Two
Foundations of Biopsychology .................................... 7
3 Anatomy of the Nervous System ............................... 50
Systems, Structures, and Cells That Make Up Your Nervous
System
4 Neural Conduction and Synaptic Transmission ................. 75
How Neurons Send and Receive Signals
5 The Research Methods of Biopsychology ...................... 101
Understanding What Biopsychologists Do
Part Three
Sensory and Motor Systems
6 The Visual System .......................................... 131
How We See
7 Mechanisms of Perception: Hearing, Touch, Smell, Taste,
and Attention .............................................. 164
How You Know the World
8 The Sensorimotor System .................................... 191
How You Move
Part Four
Brain Plasticity
9 Development of the Nervous System .......................... 219
From Fertilized Egg to You
10 Brain Damage and Neuroplasticity ........................... 240
Can the Brain Recover from Damage?
11 Learning, Memory, and Amnesia .............................. 268
How Your Brain Stores Information
Part Five
Biopsychology of Motivation
12 Hunger, Eating, and Health ................................. 298
Why Do Many People Eat Too Much?
13 Hormones and Sex ........................................... 327
What's Wrong with the Mamawawa?
14 Sleep, Dreaming, and Circadian Rhythms ..................... 355
How Much Do You Need to Sleep?
15 Drug Addiction and the Brain's Reward Circuits ............. 383
Chemicals That Harm with Pleasure
Part Six
Disorders of Cognition and Emotion
16 Lateralization, Language, and the Split Brain .............. 411
The Left Brain and the Right Brain of Language
17 Biopsychology of Emotion, Stress, and Health ............... 442
Fear, the Dark Side of Emotion
18 Biopsychology of Psychiatric Disorders ..................... 466
The Brain Unhinged
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