Brain & Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience

by Bob Garrett, Gerald Hough

Winner of the 2022 Textbook & Academic Authors Association′s The McGuffey Longevity Award In Brain & An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience, authors Bob Garrett and Gerald Hough showcase the ever-expanding body of research into the biological foundations of human behavior through a big-picture approach. With thought-provoking examples and a carefully crafted, vibrant visual program, the text allows any student to appreciate the importance and relevance of this field of study. New features to the Sixth Edition include fully revised learning objectives, a streamlined box feature program, an expanded collection of foundational animations, and updated research on timely topics such as drugs and addiction, sex and gender, and emotions and health. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package. Digital Option / Courseware SAGE Vantage is an intuitive digital platform that delivers this text’s content and course materials in a learning experience that offers auto-graded assignments and interactive multimedia tools, all carefully designed to ignite student engagement and drive critical thinking. Built with you and your students in mind, it offers simple course set-up and enables students to better prepare for class. Assignable Video with Assessment Assignable video (available with SAGE Vantage) is tied to learning objectives and curated exclusively for this text to bring concepts to life. LMS Cartridge Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site.

Genres: Textbooks

704 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 9, 2021

Reviews

[Anthony Cleveland · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good text for students interested in learning more about the relationship of brain and behavior. Not for people wanting a general survey of the topic. You will need to have some basic understanding of cellular biology. (One major drawback ... the print is way too small.) This would possibly serve as a good text for undergraduates in their third or fourth years of study within the disciplines of psychology, neuroscience or premed ... after they have taken courses in General Biology, Organic Chemistry, and Anatomy & Physiology, along with Introduction to Psychology and Abnormal Psychology?

[Michael Nguyen · Rating 5 out of 5]

If anyone wants to learn Neuroscience, I would suggest start with Behave by Robert Sapolsky. This book is a little advanced. I really enjoyed it despite being someone not of a science background. I did my previous reading of neuroscience books by Sapolsky with 'Behave', and 'Brain Energy' by Palmer. This author cites many of the same case studies about human behaviour and neuroscience as Sapolsky which I find quaint. It really goes through everything, this book. Movement, psychiatric conditions, neurological conditions, drugs, sexuality, twin studies, movement, the vestibular system, audition (hearing), vision, consciousness, neurons, language. There are 15 chapters with various focuses and subchapters within the subchapters. I really love reading science and these books have sparked a new passion for me which I'm really happy to have discovered.

[Analie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book more than other textbooks I've read. It goes into much greater detail than past physiology texts, but contains great examples of how modern scientific knowledge is being applied and where we still have unknowns. I prefer paper books, but this edition has a nice digital highlighter feature.

[Taelor Is Cool · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a textbook for a class. Hated the fact that the coloring for the definitions were such a dark blue. Was really hard to pick them out of paragraphs.

[Melina · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a super interesting book. It had a lot of interesting topics and thankfully, Professor Reyes is a great teacher.