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Biological Psychology: An Introduction to Behavioral, Cognitive, and Clinical Neuroscience, Sixth Edition Hardcover – 26 March 2010

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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.
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    0878933247
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  4. Publisher
    Sinauer Associates, Inc.
  5. Publication date
    26 March 2010
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    22.86 x 1.91 x 27.94 cm
  8. Print length
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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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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sinauer Associates, Inc.; 6th edition (26 March 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 624 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0878933247
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0878933242
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 22.86 x 1.91 x 27.94 cm
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    Rosenberg Chair of Neuroscience at Michigan State University since 2001, Marc Breedlove taught for 20 years in the Psychology department and graduate programs in Neuroscience and in Endocrinology at UC Berkeley. His research on hormone effects on the nervous system & behavior is described at:

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    He has produced over 200 scholarly articles in addition to textbooks, and has been interviewed in broadcast media including "60 Minutes", "Good Morning America" and the BBC, and the lecture series Whom You Love freely available on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/WhomYouLove2012

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    Neil V. Watson and the members of his lab at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada study hormonal aspects of the structure and function of the nervous system, with support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). His work on topics ranging from the effects of steroids on cell survival, to the neural control of reproductive behavior, to the social endocrinology of human cognition, has appeared in scientific journals that span the breadth of neuroscience, such as the Journal of Neuroscience, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Brain Research, and Hormones & Behavior. 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 behavioral neuroscience to hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students each year.

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Natalie Ellett
5.0 out of 5 stars brilliant
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for the price it is perfect. it has a little bend in the corner but doesn't affect anything so overall im really happy
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T. A. Daniel
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Overview of Biological Psychology
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Breedlove's BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY is a wonderful introduction to the intersection of physiology, biology, and behavior. I used this textbook at a graduate level, and it served as a great primer to many areas (sleep, sensation and perception, neurotransmission). With that disclosure, I think that this text would also serve well in a higher-level undergraduate psychology course.

The content is presented in a clean, clear, and concise way; it rarely gets bogged down in jargon or esoteric concepts. Colorful, easy-to-understand figures are presented often to illustrate processes and concepts. There are many images and figures here, which does well to convey things like neurotransmission, but often it breaks up the natural flow of reading. This serves as my only true complaint though; this book is probably the best I've come across for this field.

Word to the wise: you can probably do well with just the fifth edition of this book (which is currently much cheaper). Doing so will result in some missed content concerning function MRI, but most everything else is still well represented.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I love this textbook
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I absolutely love this textbook. I read it approximately 3 times during my biological psychology class in college. Now that I've graduated, I refer to random chapters for overviews of particular topics in cognitive/behavioral neuroscience quite frequently for refreshers. It is a great resource and the large diagrams and pictures are extremely helpful when learning the topics. Once I'm in graduate school I plan on getting a newer edition. This review may be a bit biased because I really like neuroscience, but I strongly feel that anyone who had to take a class that required this textbook would find it readable, enjoyable, and would be able to learn a lot from it. Highly recommend!
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great biopsych book
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