Behavioural Neuroscience

Instructors of behavioural neuroscience are faced with the challenge of how to teach the course's complex material in an accessible and relatable, yet comprehensive way for undergraduate students. For more than twenty years, Breedlove and Watson's Behavioural Neuroscience has successfully solved these problems by presenting the most current, definitive, clear, and authoritative introduction to the field. Using stellar examples of today's most exciting research, an unparalleled art program that clarifies even complex biological processes, visual summaries to remind students of the principle findings presented in each chapter, and a comprehensive suite of digital support tools--including animations with built-in assessments that help test the student's knowledge of biological and behavioural processes and neuroanatomy--Behavioural Neuroscience, Ninth International Edition, remains the best resource available to teach introductory neuroscience and behavioral neuroscience courses.

S. Marc Breedlove is the Barnett Rosenberg Professor of Neuroscience at Michigan State University.

Neil V. Watson is Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.

Chapter 0 Introduction

PART I: BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF BEHAVIOUR

Chapter 1. Functional Neuroanatomy
Chapter 2. Neurophysiology
Chapter 3. The Chemistry of Behaviour
Chapter 4. Hormones and the Brain

PART II: EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

Chapter 5. Evolution of the Brain and Behaviour
Chapter 6. Life-Span Development of the Brain and Behaviour

PART III: PERCEPTION AND ACTION

Chapter 7. General Principles of Sensory Processing, Touch, and Pain
Chapter 8. Hearing, Balance, Taste, and Smell
Chapter 9. Vision
Chapter 10. Motor Control and Plasticity

PART IV: EMOTIONS AND MENTAL DISORDERS
Chapter 11: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress
Chapter 12: Psychopathology

PART V: REGULATION AND BEHAVIOUR

Chapter 13: Sex
Chapter 14: Homeostasis
Chapter 15: Biological Rhythms, Sleep, and Dreaming

PART VI: COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
Chapter 16: Learning and Memory
Chapter 17: Attention and Higher Cognition
Chapter 18: Language and Lateralization