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, Brief Contents
PART ONE What Is Biopsychology? 10 Brain Damage and Neuroplasticity 258
1 Biopsychology as a Neuroscience 25 Can the Brain Recover from Damage?
What Is Biopsychology, Anyway? 11 Learning, Memory, and Amnesia 287
How Your Brain Stores Information
PART TWO Foundations of Biopsychology
2 Evolution, Genetics, and Experience 44 PART FIVE Biopsychology of
Thinking about the Biology of Behavior Motivation
3 Anatomy of the Nervous System 72 12 Hunger, Eating, and Health 316
Systems, Structures, and Cells That Make Up Your Why Do So Many People Eat Too Much?
Nervous System
13 Hormones and Sex 344
4 Neural Conduction and Synaptic What’s Wrong with the Mamawawa?
Transmission 97
How Neurons Send and Receive Signals 14 Sleep, Dreaming, and Circadian
Rhythms 371
5 The Research Methods of How Much Do You Need to Sleep?
Biopsychology 121
Understanding What Biopsychologists Do 15 Drug Use, Drug Addiction,
and the Brain’s Reward Circuits 404
Chemicals That Harm with Pleasure
PART THREE Sensory and Motor Systems
6 The Visual System 151
How We See PART SIX D
isorders of Cognition
and Emotion
7 Sensory Systems, Perception,
and Attention 183 16 Lateralization, Language, and
How You Know the World the Split Brain 431
The Left Brain and Right Brain
8 The Sensorimotor System 212
How You Move 17 Biopsychology of Emotion, Stress,
and Health 461
Fear, the Dark Side of Emotion
PART FOUR Brain Plasticity
18 Biopsychology of Psychiatric
9 Development of the Nervous System 236 Disorders 484
From Fertilized Egg to You The Brain Unhinged
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