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Brief Contents
PART I: WHAT IS BIOPSYCHOLOGY?
- Biopsychology as a Neuroscience
PART II: FOUNDATIONS OF BIOPSYCHOLOGY
- Evolution, Genetics, and Experience
- Anatomy of the Nervous System
- Neural Conduction and Synaptic Transmission
- The Research Methods of Biopsychology
PART III: SENSORY AND MOTOR SYSTEMS
- The Visual System
- Sensory Systems, Perception, and Attention
- The Sensorimotor System
PART IV: BRAIN PLASTICITY
- Development of the Nervous System
- Brain Damage and Neuroplasticity
- Learning, Memory, and Amnesia
PART V: BIOPSYCHOLOGY OF MOTIVATION
- Hunger, Eating, and Health
- Hormones and Sex
- Sleep, Dreaming, and Circadian Rhythms
- Drug Use, Drug Addiction, and the Brain’s Reward Circuits
PART VI: DISORDERS OF COGNITION AND EMOTION
- Lateralization, Language, and the Split Brain
- Biopsychology of Emotion, Stress, and Health
- Biopsychology of Psychiatric Disorders