Table of Contents

• PART I: WHAT IS BIOPSYCHOLOGY?
• 1. Biopsychology as a Neuroscience: What Is Biopsychology, Anyway?
• PART II: FOUNDATIONS OF BIOPSYCHOLOGY
• 2. Evolution, Genetics, and Experience: Thinking about the Biology of Behavior
• 3. Anatomy of the Nervous System: Systems, Structures, and Cells That Make Up Your Nervous System
• 4. Neural Conduction and Synaptic Transmission: How Neurons Send and Receive Signals
• 5. The Research Methods of Biopsychology: Understanding What Biopsychologists Do
• PART III: SENSORY AND MOTOR SYSTEMS
• 6. The Visual System: How We See
• 7. Mechanisms of Perception: Hearing, Touch, Smell, Taste, and Attention: How You Know the World
• 8. The Sensorimotor System: How You Move
• PART IV: BRAIN PLASTICITY
• 9. Development of the Nervous System: From Fertilized Egg to You
• 10. Brain Damage and Neuroplasticity: Can the Brain Recover from Damage?
• 11. Learning, Memory, and Amnesia: How Your Brain Stores Information
• PART V: BIOPSYCHOLOGY OF MOTIVATION
• 12. Hunger, Eating, and Health: Why Do Many People Eat Too Much?
• 13. Hormones and Sex: What’s Wrong with the Mamawawa?
• 14. Sleep, Dreaming, and Circadian Rhythms: How Much Do You Need to Sleep?
• 15. Drug Use, Drug Addiction, and the Brain’s Reward Circuits: Chemicals That Harm with Pleasure
• PART VI: DISORDERS OF COGNITION AND EMOTION
• 16. Lateralization, Language, and the Split Brain: The Left Brain and the Right Brain
• 17. Biopsychology of Emotion, Stress, and Health: Fear, the Dark Side of Emotion
• 18. Biopsychology of Psychiatric Disorders: The Brain Unhinged