Handbook of Neuroscience for the Behavioral Sciences, 2 Volume Set

by Berntson, Gary G.; Cacioppo, John T.

• ISBN13: 9780470083550
• ISBN10: 0470083557
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-12
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

As technology has made imaging of the brain noninvasive and inexpensive, nearly every psychologist in every subfield is using pictures of the brain to show biological connections to feelings and behavior. Handbook of Neuroscience for the Behavioral Sciences provides psychologists and other behavioral scientists with a solid foundation in the increasingly critical field of neuroscience. Current and accessible, it provides in two comprehensive volumes the information they need to understand the new biological bases, research tools, and implications of brain and gene research as it relates to psychology.

Author Biography

Gary Berntson is Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Pediatrics at Ohio State University where he is a principle researcher and faculty member in behavioral neuroscience program. He has published widely in journals and books on social, biological, and neurological psychology.

John Cacioppo is the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He serves as the Director of the Social Psychology Program and the co-Director of the Institute for Mind and Biology at The University of Chicago. He specializes in social neuroscience, affect and emotion, attitudes, persuasion & prejudice, and social connectedness and health.

Table of Contents

Preface

Volume 1

Foundations

Integrative Neuroscience for the Behavioral Sciences

Developmental Neuroscience

Comparative Cognition & Neuroscience

Biological Rhythms

Neuropharmacology

Neuroendocrinology: Mechanisms by Which Hormones Affect Behaviors

Neuroimmunology

Neuroanatomy/Neuropsychology

Elements of Functional Neuroimaging

Sensation and Perception

Thalamocortical Relations

Vision

Audition

Chemical Senses

Somatosensory Processes

Personal and Extrapersonal Spatial Perception

Mirror Neuron System

Attention and Cognition

Varieties of attention

Attentional Mechanisms

Mental Imagery

Categorization

Reasoning and Problem Solving

Motor control: Pyramidal, Extrapyramidal, and Limbic Motor Control

Neural Perspectives on Activation and Arousal

Sleep and Waking Across the Lifespan

Consciousness

Learning and Memory

Neuronal Basis of Learning

Synaptic and Cellular Basis of Learning

Memory

Psychological and Neural Mechanisms of Short-term Memory

Forgetting and Retrieval

Emotional Modulation of Learning and Memory

Volume 2

Motivation and Emotion

Evaluative Processes

Pain: Mechanisms and Measurement

Hunger

Thirst

Central Theories of Motivation and Emotion

Neuropsychological Models of Emotion

The Somatovisceral Components of Emotions and Their Role in Decision-Making: Specific attention to the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex

Neural Basis of Fear Conditioning

Neural Basis of Pleasure and Reward

Neural Basis of Mental Representations of Motivation, Emotion and Pleasure

Neural perspectives on Emotion: Impact on Perception, Attention, and Cognition

Social Processes

Face Perception

Self vs. O

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