Book Title: Brain and Behavior

Authors: Jill Grose-Fifer, Ph.D.

Book Description: Biological psychology is the study of the biological bases of behavior and mental processes. It explores how biological factors like genes, hormones, neurotransmitters, and brain structures influence psychological components like thoughts, emotions, memories, and actions. This free and open textbook provides a wide ranging and up-to-date introduction to the main topics and methods of biological psychology.

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Book Description

Brain and Behavior explores the biological bases of behavior and mental processes. It examines how biological factors like genes, hormones, neurotransmitters, and brain structures influence psychological components like thoughts, emotions, memories, and actions. This free and open textbook provides a wide ranging and up-to-date introduction to the main topics and methods of biological psychology. It starts by covering foundations of biological psychology (brain anatomy, neurons, research methods), continues to higher-level topics that link biology and psychology (how drugs and hormones affect the brain and behavior; brain development; genetics; and emotions) and concludes with neural and behavioral differences associated with brain damage, neurological diseases, and psychological disorders.

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This book is a cloned version of Biological Psychology [1st Edition] by Michael J. Hove and Steven A. Martinez, published using Pressbooks by ROTEL (Remixing Open Textbooks with an Equity Lens) Project under a CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) license. It may differ from the original.

Authors

Jill Grose-Fifer, Ph.D.

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Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology

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Title
Brain and Behavior
Authors
Jill Grose-Fifer, Ph.D.
Editors
Jill Grose-Fifer, Ph.D.
License

Icon for the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

Brain and Behavior Copyright © 2024 by Jill Grose-Fifer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Primary Subject
Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology
Additional Subject(s)
Psychology of ageing, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Psychopharmacology, Genetics (non-medical), Cognitive and behavioural neuroscience, Human biology
Institution
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Publication Date
August 21, 2024