Essential Biological Psychology

Covering all the major topics within biopsychology, and evaluating the most up-to-date findings, this textbook is essential reading for first and second year psychology undergraduates as well as anyone studying courses in neuropsychology or behavioural neuroscience.

G Neil Martin is Principal Lecturer in Psychology at Middlesex University and is also associate editor for The Psychologist.

Chapter 1 What is biological psychology? Chapter 2 Approaches to studying biological psychology Chapter 3 The nervous system and how it works Chapter 4 The brain: its structures, regions and functions Chapter 5 The sensory and motor systems Chapter 6 Motivation: genes, thirst, hunger, sex and aggression Chapter 7 Learning and memory Chapter 8 Emotion and stress Chapter 9 Language and other higher functions Chapter 10 Consciousness Chapter 11 Psychological and degenerative disorders