PSYC 2410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Behavioral Neuroscience, Neuroendocrinology, Neuropharmacology

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2410
• Professor: Boyer Winters

Document Summary

Biopsychology: the scieniic study of the biology of behaviour. Hebb played a key role in the creaion of biopsychology wrote a book that discussed how complex psychological phenomena (ex. percepions, emoions, memories) might be produced by brain acivity. A mulidisciplinary approach (integraion of informaion from the diferent subdivisions) is the most efecive approach to behavioural neuroscience: physiological psychology: study of the neural mechanisms of behaviour by manipulaing the nervous system (surgical or electrical brain manipulaion) Mainly basic research: psychopharmacology: study of the efects of drug manipulaion on the brain and behaviour. Basic and applied research: neuropsychology: study of the psychological efects of brain damage. Basic and applied research: psychophysiology: study of the relaion between psychological acivity and psychological processes by non-invasive physiological recording. Examples: electroencephalogram, eye movement, heart rate, skin conductance, pupil dilaion. Basic and applied research: cogniive neuroscience: study of the neural mechanisms of cogniion by non-invasive recording of brain acivity. Using positron emission tomography, funcional magneic resonance, etc.