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Biological Psychology: An Introduction to Behavioral, Cognitive, and Clinical Neuroscience, Sixth Edition
S. Marc Breedlove, Neil V. Watson, and Mark R. Rosenzweig
March 31, 2010
624 pages, 473 illustrations
casebound
About This Title
Sample chapter and instructor content available on the Samples Page.
Biological Psychology is a comprehensive survey of the biological bases of behavior that is authoritative and up-to-date. Designed for undergraduates enrolled in Biological Psychology, Physiological Psychology, or Behavioral Neuroscience, the book continues to offer an outstanding illustration program that engages students, making even complicated topics and processes clear. It offers a broad perspective, encompassing lucid descriptions of behavior, evolutionary history, development, proximate mechanisms, and applications.
The Sixth Edition features a thoroughly redesigned and up-to-date Cognitive Neuroscience module (Part VI; Chapters 17–19), with expanded coverage of attention, executive control, and decision-making processes, in keeping with the latest research breakthroughs. Optional advanced topics are available on the Web as “A Step Further,” streamlining the printed text to emphasize the important points.
The new edition boasts hundreds of new references, including research students may have encountered in the popular media. Yet critical thinking skills are also honed as the reader is alerted to the many widely held myths about the neuroscience of behavior and educated about facts that sound unlikely to the uninformed. Thorough and reader-friendly, Biological Psychology reveals the fascinating interactions of brain and behavior.
KEY FEATURES
- The book has an outstanding full-color art program, including hundreds of original illustrations that make it easy to understand structures, mechanisms, and processes in the brain.
- Each chapter opens with a brief outline and a narrative illustrating an important aspect of behavioral biology that will be made clear to the student by reading the rest of the chapter.
- Redesigned chapter summaries are organized by main chapter heads in a readable two-column format. Each has bold-faced key terms, callouts to pertinent figures, and references to the Companion Website.
- Bold-faced terms are defined in the margins of the text to help students identify and learn key terminology.
- All references to figures, tables, and boxes are boldfaced and in color, for easy differentiation from the body of the text.
- The free-access Biological Psychology Companion Website is referenced from in-text callouts and in the chapter summaries. See Media and Supplements section.
About the Authors
S. Marc Breedlove, the Barnett Rosenberg Professor of Neuroscience at Michigan State University, has written over 100 scientific articles investigating the role of hormones in shaping the developing and adult nervous system, publishing in journals including Science, Nature, Nature Neuroscience, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. He has been widely interviewed about his research by periodicals including the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and Newsweek, as well as broadcast programs such as All Things Considered, Good Morning America and Sixty Minutes. He has active grant support from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Breedlove was recently elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Neil V. Watson and the members of his lab at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada study sex-related aspects of the structure and function of the nervous system, with ongoing grant support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. He has published scientific articles on topics ranging from the effects of steroid hormones on cell survival, to the neural control of reproductive behavior, to human cognitive sex differences. Dr. Watson received his undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of Western Ontario and his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, he joined the faculty at SFU in 1996 where he is now Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology. He teaches biological psychology to hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students each year.
The late Mark R. Rosenzweig was Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Rochester and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He was active in research in biological psychology for fifty years and taught the subject for almost as many years. His main research was on brain mechanisms of learning and memory, and he also did research on brain mechanisms of auditory perception. He authored or coauthored 300 scientific publications—books, chapters, and articles. Dr. Rosenzweig held several offices in the International Union of Psychological Science, including the presidency. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., and he was awarded honorary doctorate degrees by the Université Rene Descartes (Paris), the Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg), and the Université de Montreal.
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Media and Supplements
Biological Psychology Newslink
(www.biopsychology.com/newslink)
This invaluable online resource includes links to thousands of news stories, all organized by both keyword and textbook chapter. The site is updated daily, so it includes up-to-the-minute information, providing instructors with the latest news in the field—great for use in lecture. The site also helps students make connections between the science of biological psychology and their daily lives and keeps them apprised of the latest developments in the field.
For Students
Companion Website (www.biopsychology.com)
The Companion Website for Biological Psychology contains a wide range of study and review resources to help students master the material presented in the textbook. Tightly integrated with the text, with content corresponding to every major heading and subheading in the book, this online resource greatly enhances the learning experience.
The site includes:
- Detailed Chapter Outlines that link to all of the resources on the site, forming a complete review of each chapter
- Extensive Study Questions that help the student master the full range of material in each chapter
- Animated Tutorials, Activities, and Videos that illustrate many of the complex, dynamic concepts and processes of biological psychology
- Comprehensive Quizzes that test the student's grasp of the material, with results stored in the online gradebook (instructor registration required)
- Interactive Terminology Quizzes that reinforce the many new terms introduced in each chapter
- Essay Questions that challenge students to synthesize what they have learned and apply it to more open-ended questions and problems
- “A Step Further,” offering advanced coverage of seleted topics, allowing students to explore topics more deeply
- A Glossary that provides quick access to definitions of all the important terminology used in the textbook
For Instructors
Instructor's Resource Library
The Sixth Edition Instructor's Resource Library includes a variety of resources to aid you in the planning of your course, the development of your lectures, and the assessment of your students. Features include:
- Figures and Tables: All of the line-art illustrations, photos, and tables from the textbook are provided as both high-resolution and low-resolution JPEGs, all optimized for use in presentation software (such as PowerPoint®)
- PowerPoint Resources: Three different types of PowerPoint presentations are provided for each chapter of the textbook:
- All figures, photos, and tables
- A complete lecture outline, including selected figures
- Animations and videos
- Videos: A collection of video segments for use in lecture
- Animations: These detailed animations help enliven lectures and illustrate dynamic processes.
- Instructor's Manual and Test Bank in Word format
- Computerized Test Bank: The entire Test Bank is provided in Diploma® format (software included) making it easy to quickly assemble exams using any combination of publisher-provided and custom questions. Includes the Companion Website quiz questions.
Instructor's Manual and Test Bank (included in the Instructor's Resource Library)
The Biological Psychology Instructor's Manual and Test Bank includes useful resources for planning your course, lectures, and exams. For each chapter of the textbook, it includes the following:
- A Chapter Overview that gives a big-picture snapshot of what is covered in the chapter
- A complete Chapter Outline
- A set of Key Concepts that break the chapter down into its core elements
- Detailed Lecture Outlines that can save time in preparing lectures
- Additional References for lecture/course development
- Comprehensive Exam Questions, including multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, essay, definition, and paragraph development questions that cover the full range of material in each chapter (Companion Website quiz questions included)
Online Quizzing
The Companion Website includes online quizzes that can be assigned by instructors or used as self-review exercises. Quizzes can be customized with any combination of the default questions and an instructor's own questions, and can be assigned as desired. Results of the quizzes are stored in the online gradebook. (Instructors must register in order for their students to be able to take the quizzes.)
NEW! Blackboard and WebCT e-Packs
New for the Sixth Edition, Biological Psychology now offers a complete e-Pack/course cartridge for Blackboard and WebCT. This e-Pack includes resources from the Companion Website and the Instructor's Resource Library, as well as the complete Text Bank, making it easy to quickly import a wide range of book-specific material into your WebCT or Blackboard course.
A Chapter-by-chapter Sampling of New Content
1. Biological Psychology: Scope and Outlook
- Updated discussion of consciousness and myths of neuroscience
Part I: Biological Foundations of Behavior
2. Functional Neuroanatomy: The Nervous System and Behavior
- Updated, streamlined information about the structure of the nervous system
- Discussion of the use of fMRI to probe mental functioning in people in a coma or vegetative state
3. Neurophysiology: Conduction, Transmission, and the Integration of Neural Signals
- Streamlined, improved discussion of membrane potentials
- Illustration of different types of synaptic connections
4. The Chemical Bases of Behavior: Neurotransmitters and Neuropharmacology
- Substantially updated and reorganized
- New box on dose-response curves and drug effects
- Improved coverage of soluble gas neurotransmitters
- Updates on drugs of abuse (khat, salvia), and models of addiction, including the role of the insula
5. Hormones and the Brain
- Discussion of organizational versus activational effects of hormones
- Updates on psychosocial dwarfism
- Discussion of gonadotropin inhibiting hormone (GnIH) and kisspeptin in reproduction and puberty
Part II:Evolution and Development of the Nervous System
6. Evolution of Brain and Behavior
- The social brain hypothesis
- Updates on human evolution
7. Life-Span Development of the Brain and Behavior
- Updates on ADHD
- More findings on neurogenesis in adulthood
- Updates on autism and Alzheimer's disease
Part III: Perception and Action
8. General Principles of Sensory Processing, Touch, and Pain
- Brain connections in synesthesia
- Updates on somatosensory plasticity, including a man with a transplanted hand
- Newly discovered dedicated pathway for itch sensation
- Mirror therapy for phantom limb pain
- More on endocannabinoids in pain modulation
9. Hearing, Vestibular Perception, Taste, and Smell
- Updated coverage of the auditory sense and human auditory cognition
- Coverage of the latest taste receptor discoveries
- Updated coverage of olfactory receptors and their functions
10. Vision: From Eye to Brain
- Reorganized for easier comprehension
- New material on mirror neurons
11. Motor Control and Plasticity
- Improved coverage of motor disorders
- New information on the organization of primary motor cortex
- New section on the functional organization of the cerebellum
Part IV: Regulation and Behavior
12. Sex: Evolutionary, Hormonal, and Neural Bases
- New section and illustrations on most recent models of human female sexuality
- Genetic contributions to courtship
- Numerous updates to discussion of pheromones, parenting, sex hormones, and sexual behavior
13. Homeostasis: Active Regulation of Internal States
- Thermogenic tissue and brown fat
- Updated information on the hypothalamic appetite control system
- Longevity
- Updated information on brain mechanisms of thirst
- Enhanced discussion of weight loss strategies
14. Biological Rhythms, Sleep, and Dreaming
- Streamlined discussion of circadian rhythms
- Revised figures on the neural mechanisms of sleep
- Figure contrasting the correlation of body size and sleep in carnivorous versus herbivorous mammalian species
- Updates on sleep apnea and SIDS
- Mechanisms underlying general anesthetics
Part V: Emotions and Mental Disorders
15. Emotions, Aggression, and Stress
- Updated information about animal emotions
- Improved coverage of “fear circuitry” in the brain
- Next generation of “lie detectors”
- New findings about the neurochemical bases of aggression
16. Psychopathology: Biological Basis of Behavioral Disorders
- Updates on psychosurgery
- Environmental variables and mental illness
- Cognitive behavioral therapy and medication
Part VI: Cognitive Neuroscience
17. Learning and Memory
Click on the link above for a preview of Chapter 17 (PDF, 3.01M)
- Completely reorganized and updated
- New information on molecular mechanisms of memory
- Prevention of memory loss
18. Attention and Higher Cognition
- New chapter, drawing together the most current understanding of this rapidly growing field
- Current work on spatial and nonspatial attention
- Executive control and decision making
- Neuroeconomics
- Consciousness
19. Language and Hemispheric Asymmetry
- Updated discussion of genetic models of verbal behavior
- Lateralization of function
- Stroke, language impairments, and recovery of function
Appendix
Glossary
References
Author Index
Subject Index
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