Product Details
- Author: John Pinel
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- Binding: Hardcover
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- Dewey Decimal Number: 612.8
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- EAN: 9780205461080
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- ISBN: 0205461085
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- Label: Allyn & Bacon
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- Manufacturer: Allyn & Bacon
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Number of Pages: 624
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- Product Group: Book
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- Publication Date: 2006-05-24
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- Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
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- Studio: Allyn & Bacon
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- Title: Basics of Biopsychology (MyPsychKit Series)
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Product Description: Basics of Biopsychology clearly presents the fundamentals of the study of the biology of behavior and makes the topics personally and socially relevant to the student. By emphasizing four interwoven themes (“Thinking Clearly,” “Clinical Implications,” “The Evolutionary Perspective,” and “Cognitive Neuroscience”) throughout the book, the major recent developments in the rapidly changing field of biopsychology come alive clearly and completely for students. How Biopsychologists Think about Behavior, Anatomy of the Brain, Neural Activity and How to Study It, The Visual System, Mechanisms of Perception, The Sensorimotor System, Development of the Nervous System, Brain Damage and Neuroplasticity, Learning, Memory, and Amnesia, Hunger, Eating, and Health, Hormones and Sex, Sleep, Dreaming, and Circadian Rhythms, Health Psychology, Lateralization, Language, and the Split Brain, and Behavioral Neuroscience of Psychiatric Disorders biopsychology
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Customer Reviews
Great Purchase
This book was in great condition, shipped to me in time and saved me lots of money from the book store.
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Wonderful intro to neural systems
This book is extremely well written, interesting, and understandable. If you have not studied anything of neurology, it is the best first step. I am very picky about books, and this is a keeper. I'm a nursing student, and having finished the nursing prerequisites, this is a good plus to understand a major aspect of physiology.
A couple comments/warnings:
It covers a lot of basic physiology/anatomy/genetics, so it may seem like a lot of review if you've had pre-medical training.
Emotions and feelings are almost completely absent, odd considering "psychology" is in the title.
He's Canadian, and has a wonderful and quirky writing style that I've mostly seen from Canadian authors.
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