About this book
Brain & Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience 6th Edition PDF by Bob Garrett and Gerald Hough is offered here as a PDF eBook. The sixth edition introduces the biological foundations of behavior through a broad, accessible approach that connects neural systems with perception, motivation, emotion, cognition and behavior. It explains how neurons communicate, how sensory and motor systems operate, how hormones and homeostatic processes influence behavior, and how learning, memory, language and mental disorders relate to brain function. Updated research addresses drugs and addiction, sex and gender, and the relationship between emotions and health, while revised learning objectives and visual teaching features support structured study. The text is especially useful for students entering behavioral neuroscience because it emphasizes the relevance of biological mechanisms to familiar psychological questions rather than presenting neuroscience as a collection of isolated facts.
Designed for psychology students, neuroscience students, behavioral-science learners, and introductory-course instructors, this edition provides a structured resource for understanding how nervous-system processes relate to human behavior and experience.
This listing is for the 6th edition of Brain & Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience. Check the title, edition, authors/editors, and other product information before ordering if you need the book for a particular course, syllabus, examination, or professional reference.
Neural Foundations and Human Behavior
Brain & Behavior introduces behavioral neuroscience through the connection between nervous-system mechanisms and recognizable questions about behavior. Garrett and Hough organize the sixth edition around neural foundations, motivation and emotion, interaction with the world, and complex behavior. The sequence begins with communication and organization in the nervous system before moving into reward, internal regulation, sensation, movement, learning, cognition, and sleep. Research methods and ethics provide a context for considering how such relationships are investigated. The result is an introductory behavioral-neuroscience text for readers who want to connect biological explanations with the psychological phenomena they are studying.
From Neural Communication to Complex Behavior
The 6th edition covers the following areas:
- Neural foundations: Cells, communication, and nervous-system organization.
- Research methods and ethics: How behavioral-neuroscience questions are investigated.
- Drugs, addiction, and reward: Biological approaches to substance effects and reward.
- Motivation and emotion: Internal regulation, sex and gender, emotion, stress, and health.
- Sensory systems and movement: Hearing, language, vision, body senses, and movement.
- Learning and cognition: Memory, intelligence, and cognitive functioning.
- Disorders, sleep, and consciousness: Biological discussion of psychological disorders and conscious states.
Relating Biological Mechanisms to Psychological Questions
This book is useful when students need to connect an account of brain function with a question about everyday behavior. A course may introduce neural communication before discussing reward or memory, but the purpose of that foundation is easier to see when the later behavior is kept in view. The four-part structure provides a way to make those connections while distinguishing motivation, sensory interaction, and complex behavior. It also gives instructors a framework for discussing what research evidence can establish about a proposed biological explanation. Readers beginning neuroscience can use that organization to identify which level of explanation a particular question requires.
Who uses this book
- Undergraduate Psychology Students
- Behavioral Neuroscience Students
- Biological Psychology Students
- Introductory Neuroscience Students
- Cognitive Science Students Building Neuroscience Foundations
- Students Studying the Biological Bases of Behavior
- Students Preparing for Behavioral Neuroscience Examinations
- Psychology and Neuroscience Instructors
- Learners Exploring Brain, Behavior and Mental Health Connections
Also suitable for other behavioral-science learners who need an accessible introduction linking nervous-system function with motivation, perception, cognition, emotion and behavior.
Key Topics Covered
- Neural communication
- Central and peripheral nervous systems
- Nervous-system development
- Neuroscience research methods
- Research ethics
- Drugs and addiction
- Reward
- Homeostasis and motivation
- Biology of sex and gender
- Emotion and stress
- Hearing and language
- Vision and perception
- Body senses and movement
- Learning and memory
- Sleep and consciousness
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