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Psychobiology
Basic neurochemistry and neurophysiology of nerve transmission; the structure and organisation of the CNS; behavioural genetics; hormones and behaviour. Psychopharmacology, the brain and reward, drug action and behaviour. Biological aspects of learning, memory, motivation and emotion, sleep and arousal. Evolutionary explanations of behaviour: primatology, _ocio-biology, animal cognition and comparative psychology. Human neuropsychology, cortical localisation of function, biological basis of psychological abnormalities. Basic neurochemistry: neurotransmitters; the brain and reward; drug action on behaviour. Human neuropsychology: problems of localisation; perceptual memory and cognitive disorders following brain lesions; rehabilitation. Evolutionary explanations of behaviour: primatology; behaviour genetics and socio-biology . Animal cognition. Biological bases of psychological abnormalities.
- Practicals (10): A practical in this context is a learning and teaching resource that can be used for instructional purposes within a Higher Education environment. Practicals on this site have been collected from academics who use them regularly within their own teaching. Practicals
- Tutorials (13): A tutorial is a document, software, or other media created for the purpose of instruction for any of a wide variety of tasks. Tutorials usually have the following characteristics:
- A presentation of content, usually with an example or examples, often broken up into discrete modules or sections.
- Some method of review that reinforces or tests understanding of the content in the related module or section.
- A transition to additional modules or sections that builds on the instructions already provided. Tutorials can be linear or branching. Tutorials
- Demos (4): A demo generally sheds light on how to do something. Demos on this site include video-based instruction. Demos
- Other (7): Other psychobiology resources. Other
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