Suzanne Higgs & Alison Cooper 
Biological Psychology [EPUB ebook] 

Biological Psychology offers a highly visual, in-depth guide to the basic biological functions of the brain that you will need to learn throughout the course of your psychology degree. This edition boasts a revamped learning structure with a strong applied focus. This allows you to engage with biological psychology through a range of real world applications, getting you to apply your learning to conditions such as epilepsy, PTSD and Parkinson’s, and treatments such as gene therapy and brain-computer interfaces for spinal cord injuries.  



Key features include: 



• New ′real world applications′ boxes that help put theory into practice, showing you the human side of the science

• ′Focus on methods′ boxes that demonstrate the research methods you will use as a biological psychologist to uncover the workings of the brain 

• Key debates to deepen your understanding of contemporary research and its impact  

• Critical thinking questions

• Key points and glossary definitions to solidify your understanding of complex ideas and new terminology

• Further reading suggestions to help build your bibliography for assignments

• Video animations to help you grasp basic neuroanatomy and psychobiology 



This book goes above and beyond to familiarise you with the links between biology and psychology, making it an essential read for psychology students at all levels.




Suzanne Higgs is Professor in the Psychobiology of Appetite at the University of Birmingham.


Alison Cooper is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham. 


Jonathan Lee is Professor of Memory Neuroscience at the University of Birmingham.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: What is Biological Psychology

Chapter 2: Structure and Communication in the Nervous System

Chapter 3: Drugs and the Nervous System: Psychopharmacology

Chapter 4: Development, Degeneration and Recovery in the Nervous System

Chapter 5: The Importance of Experience: Learning and Memory

Chapter 6: Sensory Systems

Chapter 7: Motor Control

Chapter 8: Emotional Behaviours

Chapter 9: Motivated Behaviours

Chapter 10: Psychological Disorders

O autorze

Professor Jonathan Lee has a degree in Natural Sciences, specialising in Neuroscience, from the University of Cambridge. He has always been interested in the value of studying biological mechanisms in order to understand behaviour. This interest has been particularly focused on unconscious memories and their impact on behaviour. In his Ph D and Postdoctoral research, also at the University of Cambridge, he studied the contribution of gene expression and pharmacological mechanisms in the processes underlying long-term fear and addictive drug memories. He has continued these research interests since moving to the University of Birmingham, using his research experience to teach an introduction to Biological Psychology in the BSc Psychology programme.