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Main description:
This title offers a comprehensive and up-to-date presentation of the processes by which biological systems, most notably the nervous system, affect behaviour. A fantastic art program, an applauded accessible writing style and a host of pedagogical features - including chapter-opening vignettes, real world examples, applications sections, and frequent summaries - make the text relevant to the lives of the students taking biological psychology. Lecturer and student supplements are available.
Contents:
An Introduction to Biological Psychology; Exploring the Nervous System; The Development and Plasticity of the Nervous System; Communication Within the Nervous System; The Effects of Psychoactive Drugs; Vision; Hearing, Balance, and the Cutaneous and Chemical Senses; The Neurological Control of Movement; Wakefulness and Sleep; The Biology of Eating and Drinking; Sexual Development and Sexual Behavior; The Biology of Emotion and Stress; Language and Lateralization; The Biology of Learning and Memory; The Biological Basis of Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia.
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Worth Publishers Inc.,U.S.
Publication date: January, 2007
Pages: 500
Weight: 652g
Availability: Not available (reason unspecified)
Subcategories: Neurology