Behavioral Neuroscience

by S. Marc Breedlove, Neil V. Watson (Contributor)

For 20 years, instructors have relied on the textbook Biological Psychology for a definitive and comprehensive survey of the neuroscience of behavior. Thanks to the explosion of work in the neurosciences, each of the seven editions has included more neural details than the one before. Thus the
time has come to revise the title to reflect the evolution of both the book and the Behavioral Neuroscience.

Behavioral Neuroscience , Eighth Edition, provides undergraduates with a lively survey of the field. It offers a broad perspective, encompassing cutting edge neuroscience, lucid descriptions of behavior, evolutionary and developmental perspectives, and clinical applications of research. Despite this
comprehensive range of material, the authors have striven in the latest revision to lay bare the neuroscience concepts underlying behavior with concision and clarity.

Special

- Learning is supported by a best-in-class full-color art program, including hundreds of original illustrations that make it easy to understand structures, mechanisms, and processes in the brain. Many additional graphical elements have been reproduced from primary research sources, bringing the
learner closer to the science behind the subject matter.

- Every chapter includes a special feature called "The Cutting Edge" that highlights an up-to-the-moment discovery or technical innovation, while illustrating the logic and methodology of experimentation and hypothesis testing

- Each chapter ends with a unique feature, the "Visual Summary," a poster-like layout that provides a graphical review of the major topics of the chapter and directs students to the figures and online animations that reinforce each point.

- The text is supported by a rich array of internet-based resources.

- Over 500 new citations keep the text current and an excellent resource.

Thorough and reader-friendly, Behavioral Neuroscience , Eighth Edition, reveals the fascinating relationships between the brain and behavior.


Biological Psychology Newslink

This continuously updated site provides links to thousands of news stories in the field, all organized by both keyword and textbook chapter. The site is designed to help instructors keep up with the latest news in the field and find interesting topics for lectures or discussions and to provide
students with an appreciation of the wide-ranging applications of the material they are studying in the course.

For Students

Companion Website

Each new copy of the textbook includes 180-day access to the Companion Website.

The Behavioral Neuroscience Companion Website contains a wide range of study and review resources to help students master the material presented in the textbook, as well as coverage of additional topics. For each chapter of the textbook, the site

* Chapter Outlines that outline each chapter and link to relevant Study Questions
* Visual Summaries that link to all of the Activities and Videos, forming a complete review of each chapter
* Study Questions that help the student master the full range of material in each chapter
* Animations & Videos that illustrate many of the complex, dynamic concepts and processes of biological psychology
* Activities that help the student review key structures and processes
* Online Quizzes (including both multiple-choice and essay questions) that test the student's grasp of the material, with results stored in the online gradebook (instructor registration required)
* Flashcards activities that review and reinforce the many new terms introduced in each chapter
* "A Step Further," offering advanced coverage of selected topics, allowing students to explore topics more deeply
* A Glossary that provides quick access to definitions of all the important terminology in the textbook

For Instructors

Instructor's Resource Library
The Behavioral Neuroscience , Eighth Edition, Instructor's Resource Library includes a variety of resources to aid you in the planning of your course, the development of your lectures, and the assessment of your students,

* Figures and All of the line-art illustrations, photographs, and tables from the textbook are provided as both high-resolution and low-resolution JPEGs, all optimized for use in presentation software (such as PowerPoint)

* PowerPoint Two different types of PowerPoint presentations are provided for each chapter of the
- All figures, photos, and tables
- A complete lecture presentation, including selected figures

* New for the eighth edition, a robust collection of video segments from the BBC and other sources bring to life may of the important concepts discussed in the textbook. Excellent as lecture-starters and discussion topics.
* These detailed animations help enliven lectures and illustrate dynamic processes.
* Instructor's Manual and Test Bank in Word format (details below)
* Computerized Test The entire Test Bank is provided in Diploma format (software included) making it easy to quickly assemble exams using any combi...

Genres: Science, Neuroscience, Nonfiction, Psychology

643 pages, Hardcover

Published September 13, 2016

About the author

Rosenberg Professor of Neuroscience, Michigan State University.

Reviews

[Erik · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a good book, considered the textbook format. It contains myriads of exciting information and brings lots of perspective to the brain and behaviour of living beings, this, in a high degree of detail in the subjects it touches. Exciting but a tough read.

[Alli · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book. I find that the diagrams are very helpful to understand the material, and the cutting edge parts to be very interesting. It helps very well with the understanding of basic, yet complex topics in neuroscience.

[Пепа .. · Rating 4 out of 5]

I cried but at the end I was happy 🙂😭

[Audrey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Actually not terrible for a textbook

[Lexi Mag · Rating 5 out of 5]

FANTASTIC textbook for a very hard class. Explains everything very clearly. I'm SOOOO glad that this was the required text for the class because it helped so much.

[Henk · Rating 4 out of 5]

clear and well structured. perfect if you’re new to neuroscience