, Biopsychology
ELEVENTH EDITION
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John P. J. Pinel & Steven J. Barnes
University of British Columbia
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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
3
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ELEVENTH EDITION
GLOBAL EDITION
John P. J. Pinel & Steven J. Barnes
University of British Columbia
Harlow, England • London • New York • Boston • San Francisco • Toronto • Sydney • Dubai • Singapore • Hong Kong
Tokyo • Seoul • Taipei • New Delhi • Cape Town • São Paulo • Mexico City • Madrid • Amsterdam • Munich • Paris • Milan
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,Pearson Education Limited
KAO Two
KAO Park
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and Associated Companies throughout the world
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© Pearson Education Limited, 2022
The rights of John P. J. Pinel and Steven Barnes to be identified as the authors of this work have been
asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Authorized adaptation from the United States edition, entitled Biopsychology, 11th Edition, ISBN 978-0-135-71088-
3 by John P.J. Pinel and Steven J. Barnes, published by Pearson Education © 2021.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or
transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise,
without either the prior written permission of the publisher or a license permitting restricted copying in the
United Kingdom issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London
EC1N 8TS. This publication is protected by copyright, and permission should be obtained from the
publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or
by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise. For information regarding
permissions, request forms, and the appropriate contacts within the Pearson Education Global Rights and
Permissions department, please visit www.pearsoned.com/permissions/.
All trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners. The use of any trademark in this text
does not vest in the author or publisher any trademark ownership rights in such trademarks, nor does the
use of such trademarks imply any affiliation with or endorsement of this book by such owners.
This eBook is a standalone product and may or may not include all assets that were part of the print version.
It also does not provide access to other Pearson digital products like MyLab and Mastering. The publisher
reserves the right to remove any material in this eBook at any time.
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 10: 1-292-35193-4
ISBN 13: 978-1-292-35193-3
eBook ISBN 13: 978-1-292-36766-8
Typeset in Palatino LT Pro 9.5/13 by SPi Global.
eBook formatted by B2R Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
, 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
3
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