Acquire an up-to-date, comprehensive, and accessible overview of behavioural neuroscience. For courses in Physiological Psychology and Biopsychology.

Physiology of Behavior, 13th edition, by Carlson and Birkett provides a scholarly yet accessible portrait of the dynamic interaction between biology and behaviour. Authors Neil Carlson and Melissa Birkett drew upon their experience of teaching and working with students to create this comprehensive and accessible guide in behavioural neuroscience.

Key features include:

• chapter-opening case studies sharing real-life experiences around important issues in neuroscience
• Chapter Review questions that will help you review and understand what you have read
• a new chapter on the disorders of the developing nervous system with information about disorders of development, autism-spectrum disorders, and attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorders

• rich, updated art to improve accessibility, and in line with the latest findings and studies in the field
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  Autorentext

  Neil R. Carlson pursued his undergraduate studies at theUniversity of Illinois. He had planned to study nuclear physics, but when hediscovered in an Introductory Psychology course that psychology was really ascience, he decided that was what he wanted to do. Before changing his major,Carlson talked with several professors and visited their laboratories, and whenhe saw what physiological psychologists do, he knew that he had found hisniche. He stayed on at Illinois and received his Ph.D. Then, after a two-yearpostdoctoral fellowship at the University of Iowa, Carlson came to theUniversity of Massachusetts, where he taught throughout his entire career. Heretired from UMass in the fall of 2004, but continues to keep up withdevelopments in the field of behavioral neuroscience and to revise this book.

  As an undergraduate psychology major at CornellUniversity, **Melissa A. Birkett discovered courses inbiopsychology, behavior, endocrinology, and evolutionary psychology. There, shewas introduced to interdisciplinary research incorporating multipleperspectives in the challenging task of understanding behavior. She becameinterested in learning about behavior and its underlying mechanisms. She workedas an undergraduate research assistant in several laboratories on projectsranging from insect behavior to sleep in undergraduates. Those formativeexperiences and interactions with several influential research mentorsconvinced her to pursue a career in research.

  Birkettcompleted her Ph.D. in the Neuroscience and Behavior program at the Universityof Massachusetts Amherst (where Neil Carlson was a faculty member at the time).In 2007, she accepted a faculty position at Northern Arizona University in theDepartment of Psychological Sciences, and in the fall of 2018 became anassistant professor at Southern Oregon University. Birkett currently conductsresearch related to the stress response and teaches undergraduate courses inpsychology, research methods, statistics, behavioral neuroscience, andpsychopharmacology. Each semester, she supervises student researchers and seeksto provide them with the kinds of opportunities she found valuable as astudent. Her work has been recognized with awards for both outstanding teachingand teaching innovation, and she has contributed to several publications onbest practices in teaching neuroscience.

  Klappentext

  For courses in Physiological Psychology and Biopsychology An up-to-date, comprehensive, and accessible overview of behavioralneuroscience Physiology of Behavior provides a scholarly yet accessibleportrait of the dynamic interaction between biology and behavior. Authors NeilCarlson and Melissa Birkett drew upon their experience teaching and workingwith students to create this comprehensive and accessible guide for students ofbehavioral neuroscience. In addition to inclusion of the latest research in thefield, the 13th Edition offers a new chapter on development ofthe nervous system that features information about disorders of development,autism spectrum disorders, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

  Inhalt

  1. Introduction
  2. Structure and Functions of Cells of the Nervous System
  3. Structure of the Nervous System
  4. Psychopharmacology and Neurotransmitters
  5. Methods and Strategies of Research
  6. Vision
  7. Audition, the Body Senses, and the Chemical Senses
  8. Control of Movement
  9. Sleep and Biological Rhythms
  10. Reproductive and Parental Behavior
  11. Emotion
  12. Ingestive Behavior
  13. Learning and Memory
  14. Human Communication
  15. Disorders of the Developing Nervous System
  16. Neurological Disorders
  17. Schizophrenia and the Affective Disorders
  18. Stress and Anxiety Disorders
  19. Substance Abuse