Clear & Comprehensive Biological Psychology Notes 2024

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This PDF comprehensively summarises Biological Psychology, Weeks 1-12, Semester 1 2024. They are easy to follow and divided into clear sections for each week. Table of contents: Week 1 - Lecture 1 Introduction: Methods in Biological Psychology and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Week 1 - Lecture 2 Applications of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) in Biological Psychology Research Week 2 – Lecture 3/4 Statistical Hypothesis Testing in Biological Psychology Week 3 - Lecture 5 How do we hear? The transduction of sound energy into neural signals in the brain Week 3 - Lecture 6 How do we see? The transduction of light energy into neural signals and where they are sent in the brain Week 4 - Lecture 7 Visual Processing of the Brain Week 4 - Lecture 8 Object and Scene Recognition Week 5 - Lecture 9 Spatial Navigation Week 5 - Lecture 10 Scene Awareness Week 6 - Lecture 11 Memory Function in the Temporal Lobe Week 6 - Lecture 12 Disorders of Memory: Alzheimer’s Disease Week 7 - Lecture 13 Electroencephalography (EEG): Methods Week 7 - Lecture 14 Electroencephalography (EEG): The Event-related Potential (ERP) Method Week 8 - Lecture 15 Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI): Basics Week 8 - Lecture 16 Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fRMI): Methods Week 9 - Lecture 17 Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fRMI) Research: Localising cognitive functions Week 9 - Lecture 18 Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fRMI): what do we learn about cognition? Week 10 - Lecture 19 Introduction to Neuropharmacology Week 10 - Lecture 20 Glutamate and GABA: Excitation and Inhibition Week 11 - Lecture 21 Dopamine: Reward, Addiction, and Parkinson’s Disease Week 11 - Lecture 22 Noradrenaline: Arousal, Decisions, and Anxiety Week 12 - Lecture 23 Serotonin: Mood and Affective Disorders Week 12 - Lecture 24 Peptides, Lipids, Nucleosides & Gases