TY - BOOK AU - Pinel, John P. J. TI - Biopsychology. SN - 0205138977 AV - QP360.P463 PY - 1993/// CY - Boston PB - Allyn and Bacon N1 - Includes index; Contents: Biopsychology as a neuroscience -- Evolution, genetics, and development: learning to ask the right questions about the biology of behavior -- The anatomy of the nervous system -- Neural conduction and synaptic transmission -- What biopsychologists do: the research methods of biopsychology -- Human brain damage and animal models -- The visual system: From eye to cortex -- Mechanisms of perception -- The sensorimotor system -- The biopsychology of eating and drinking -- Hormones and sex -- Sleep, dreaming, and circadian rhythms -- Drug abuse and reward circuits in the brain -- Memory and amnesia -- Neuroplasticity: development, learning and recovery from brain damage -- Lateralization, language, and the split brain -- The biopsychology of emotions and mental illness ER -