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Basics of Biopsychology (Book Alone)
ISBN-10: 0205461085
ISBN-13: 9780205461080
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2007
Format: CD-ROM Only; 624 pp
Published: 05/24/2006
Basics of Biopsychology is a unique combination of science and personal reader-oriented discourse weaving the fundamentals of the field with clinical case studies, social issues, personal implications and humorous anecdotes. It is a friendly mentor that speaks directly to students.
Basics of Biopsychology conveys the excitement of scientific inquiry for students with little background in the biological sciences. Pedagogy facilitates the acquisition and retention of information with an emphasis on clear thinking and a youthful design that will immediately attract and engage students, lots of interest-generating photos and illustrations, and chapter-ending visual summaries. It also offers a convenient organization with 5 sections of 3 chapters each.
Unique Features
- Places a strong emphasis on behavior. Social issues are presented in a fashion that makes them relevant to the students; sex, hunger, sleep, and drug addiction are topics that are presented in a balanced, and often humorous, manner.
- Emphasizes four themes – “Thinking Clearly,” “Clinical Implications,” “The Evolutionary Perspective,” and “Cognitive Neuroscience” – that are integral to each chapter and that are highlighted throughout by marginal icons.
- Effectively stimulates interest, illustrates key concepts, and emphasizes clinical applications with numerous case studies woven through the text.
- Embraces diversity and stresses that the success of biopsychological research often results from the convergence of its diverse approaches.
- Also includes Beyond the Brain and Behavior CD-ROM.
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- Places a strong emphasis on behavior. Social issues are presented in a fashion that makes them relevant to the students; sex, hunger, sleep, and drug addiction are topics that are presented in a balanced, and often humorous, manner.
- Emphasizes four themes–“Thinking Clearly,” “Clinical Implications,” “The Evolutionary Perspective,” and “Cognitive Neuroscience”–that are integral to each chapter and that are highlighted throughout by marginal icons.
- Effectively stimulates interest, illustrates key concepts, and emphasizes clinical applications with numerous case studies woven through the text.
- Embraces diversity and stresses that the success of biopsychological research often results from the convergence of its diverse approaches.
- Explores up-to-date human and non-human research, as well as both theoretical and applied research.
- Scan Your Brain, study exercises that occur at key transition points, where students can review preceding material before continuing.
- Check It Out demonstrations throughout emphasize application of concepts, with activities for students to try in and out of the classroom.
- Visual summaries located at the end of each chapter encourage students to review the chapter through text summary and beautiful chapter illustrations. This 2-page spread also includes Themes Revisited, a section which summarizes the ways the book’s four major themes have impacted topics in the chapter, and Think about It, questions that challenge students to think critically about chapter information. Everything in one easy place for maximum studying benefit!
- Boldfaced key terms throughout every chapter and listed at the end of every chapter by A-Head. Additional terms of lesser importance appear in italics.
- Appendices, which serve as convenient sources of important information supplemental to the text material.
- Boasts an updated art program that illustrates difficult concepts with simple visuals, well-integrated with the text material.
1. Introduction to Biopsychology
How Biopsychologists Think about Behavior
1.1 What is Biopsychology?
1.2 Human Evolution
1.3 Fundamental Genetics
1.4 Thinking about the Biology of Behavior: Mind-Brain and Nature-Nurture Issues
Chapter 2
Anatomy of the Brain
The Systems, Structures, and Cells that Make Up Your Nervous System
2.1 General Layout of the Nervous System
2.2 Cells of the Nervous System
2.3 Neuroanatomical Techniques and Directions
2.4 The Spinal Cord
2.5 The Five Divisions of the Brain
2.6 Major Structures of the Brain
Chapter 3
Neural Activity and How to Study It
How Neurons Work
3.1 The Neuron’s Resting Membrane Potential
3.2 Postsynaptic Potentials and Action Potentials
3.3 Conduction of Action Potentials
3.4 Synaptic Transmission: Chemical Transmission of Signals from One Neuron to Another
3.5 The Neurotransmitters
3.6 How Biopsychologists Study the Brain
PART 2: Sensory and Motor Systems
Chapter 4
The Visual System
How We See
4.1 Light Enters the Eye and Reaches the Retina
4.2 The Retina and Translation of Light into Neural Signals
4.3 From Retina to Primary Visual Cortex
4.4 Seeing Edges
4.5 Seeing Color
4.6 Cortical Mechanisms of Vision: Beyond Primary Visual Cortex
Chapter 5
Mechanisms of Perception
Hearing, Touch, Taste, Smell, and Attention: How You Know the World
5.1 Principles of Sensory System Organization
5.2 Auditory System
5.3 Somatosensory System: Touch and Pain
5.4 The Chemical Senses: Smell and Taste
5.5 Selective Attention
Chapter 6
The Sensorimotor System
How You Do What You Do
6.1 Three Principles of Sensorimotor Function
6.2 Sensorimotor Association Cortex
6.3 Secondary Motor Cortex
6.4 Primary Motor Cortex
6.5 Cerebellum and Basal Ganglia
6.6 Descending Motor Pathways
6.7 Sensorimotor Spinal Circuits
6.8 Central Sensorimotor Programs
PART 3: Plasticity of the Brain
Chapter 7
Development of the Nervous System
From Fertilized Egg to You
7.1 Phases of Neurodevelopment
7.2 Postnatal Cerebral Development in Human Infants
7.3 Effects of Experience on the Early Development, Maintenance, and Reorganization of Neural Circuits
7.4 Neuroplasticity in Adults
7.5 Disorders of Neurodevelopment: Autism and Williams Syndrome
Chapter 8
Brain Damage and Neuroplasticity
Can the Brain Recover from Damage?
8.1 Causes of Brain Damage
8.2 Neuropsychological Diseases
8.3 Animal Models of Human Neuropsychological Diseases
8.4 Neuroplastic Responses to Nervous System Damage: Degeneration, Regeneration, Reorganization, and Recovery
8.5 Neuroplasticity and the Treatment of Nervous System Damage
Chapter 9
Learning, Memory, and Amnesia
How Your Brain Stores Information
9.1 Amnesic Effects of Bilateral Medial Temporal Lobectomy
9.2 Amnesia of Korsakoff’s Syndrome
9.3 Amnesia of Alzheimer’s Disease
9.4 Amnesia after Concussion: Evidence for Consolidation
9.5 Neuroanatomy of Object-Recognition Memory
9.6 The Hippocampus and Memory for Spatial Location
9.7 Where Are Memories Stored?
9.8 Synaptic Mechanisms of Learning and Memory
9.9 Conclusion: Infantile Amnesia and the Biopsychologist Who Remembered H.M.
PART 4: Biopsychology of Motivation
Chapter 10
Hunger, Eating, and Health
Why Do Many People Eat Too Much?
10.1 Digestion and Energy Flow
10.2 Theories of Hunger and Eating: Set Point versus Positive Incentives
10.3 Factors That Determine What, When, and How Much We Eat
10.4 Physiological Research on Hunger and Satiety
10.5 Body Weight Regulation: Set Points versus Settling Points
10.6 Human Obesity
10.7 Anorexia and Dieting
Chapter 11
Hormones and Sex
What’s Wrong with the Mamawawa?
11.1 The Neuroendocrine System
11.2 Hormones and Sexual Development
11.3 Three Cases of Exceptional Human Sexual Development
11.4 Effects of Gonadal Hormones on Adults
11.5 Neural Mechanisms of Sexual Behavior
11.6 Sexual Orientation, Hormones, and the Brain
Chapter 12
Sleep, Dreaming, and Circadian Rhythms
How Much Do You Need to Sleep?
12.1 Physiological and Behavioral Events of Sleep
12.2 REM Sleep and Dreaming
12.3 Why Do We Sleep, and Why Do We Sleep When We Do?
12.4 Comparative Analysis of Sleep
12.5 Circadian Sleep Cycles
12.6 Effects of Sleep Deprivation
12.7 Four Areas of the Brain Involved in Sleep
12.8 The Circadian Clock: Neural and Molecular Mechanisms
12.9 Drugs That Affect Sleep
12.10 Sleep Disorders
12.11 The Effects of Long-Term Sleep Reduction
PART 5: Biopsychology of Health
Chapter 13
Health Psychology
Addiction, Emotions, and Stress: Impact of Psychological factors on Health
13.1 Principles of Drug Addiction
13.2 Effects on Health of Five Commonly Abused Drugs
13.3 Addiction and the Neural Mechanisms of Motivation
13.4 Introduction to the Biopsychology of Emotion
13.5 Stress and Health
13.6 Brain Mechanisms of Emotion
Chapter 14
Lateralization, Language, and the Split Brain
The Left Brain and the Right Brain of Language
14.1 Cerebral Lateralization of function: Introduction
14.2 The Split Brain
14.3 Differences between the Left and Right Hemispheres
14.4 Cortical Localization of Language: The Wernecicke-Geschwind Model
14.5 Evaluation of the Wernicke-Geschwind Model
14.6 The Cognitive Neuroscience approach to Language
14.7 The Cognitive Neuroscience Approach and Dyslexia
Chapter 15
Behavioral Neuroscience of Psychiatric Disorders
The Brain Unhinged
15.1 Schizophrenia
15.2 Affective Disorders: Depression and Mania
15.3 Anxiety Disorders
15.4 Tourette Syndrome
15.5 Clinical Trial: Development of New Psychotherapeutic Drugs
Epilogue
Appendix I: The Autonomic Nervous System
Appendix II: Some Functions of Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Activation
Appendix III: The Cranial Nerves
Appendix IV: Functions of the Cranial Nerves
Appendix V: Nuclei of the Thalamus
Appendix VI: Nuclei of the Hypothalamus
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“The text consistently excels….. The entire text is honed and refined to the extent that students reading the text will be transformed into reasonably sophisticated biopsychologists by the book’s end….. I think that many of the chapters are close to perfection.” -- Nancy J. Woolf, UCLA
“Pinel is an excellent writer…. [The case studies] are a major strength over Kalat. These sections should pique the students’ interests and hopefully help them appreciate the relevance of this course.” — Joseph H. Porter, Virginia Commonwealth University
“When I review a possible book for adoption, I first turn to the chapter on axonal and synaptic transmission. A really great author should be able to make these topics interesting and engaging. Pinel has succeeded in doing this by taking some new directions that I applaud.” -- Douglas Engwall, Central CT State
“Dr. Pinel has a wonderful style that makes complicated material accessible. This is particularly helpful for those students who might be intimidated by the ‘hard sciences.’ … I would like to thank Dr. Pinel for his efforts over the years to provide clear and concise material for students to appreciate the depth and fascination of biopsychology. Congratulations on a fantastic job! ” — David Holtzman, University of Rochester
“Pinel’s use of anecdotes and personal stories is superior to Kalat’s.” – Stanley N. Bursten, Santa Barbara City College
“I really liked the illustrations. I thought the attention to detail, especially, in labeling all of the important structures and pathways was outstanding. This may the first book in which illustrations are complementary to the text, as opposed to something fun to look at while you read.” — Rita Michelle Lewellen, Cerritos College
Excerpt from a letter to the author (used with permission)::
Excerpt from a letter to the author (used with permission)::
"I am doing a Graduate Diploma in Psychology in Brisbane, Australia and just wanted to say that your textbook is particularly interesting and stimulating. I can see that there is passion and clarity in every chapter and your own experiences with the tumour as relayed in Chapter 10 was fascinating. It’s good to know that some texts can have that “human” factor, and this really makes an impact on the reader. "
Excerpt from a letter to the author (used with permission)::
"Dr. Pinel,
I am a student who has just completed a Biopsychology course designed around your textbook (6th ed.) at Birmingham-Southern College. To confess my initial thoughts, I largely began this course because it is one of the requirements of my Psychology major and I gazed rather unexcitedly upon the cover of your textbook, assuming it to be like some of the other repetitive, over-written books I had become accustomed to during my three years at this college. However, as I delved a little deeper into the subject matter, exploring topics from sex and hormones to sleep cycles to neuroplasticity, I began to realize that your textbook is unlike any I had ever used. Not only is the research you include very pertinent to the subject and thought-provoking, but you seem to take the time to include personal notes, stories, and anecdotes that truly set your work apart from other texts. I can tell that Psychology is a field that really excites you, and in turn, I am more excited about my major. I just wanted to send you this small token of my graditude and a thanks for changing my mind about Psychology.
- Jeff Tullis, Birmingham-Southern College 2008"
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