Authorized adaptation from the United States edition, entitled Biopsychology, 10th edition, ISBN 978-0-134-20369-0, by John P. J. Pinel, published by Pearson Education.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-567) and indexes.

PART I: WHAT IS BIOPSYCHOLOGY?1. Biopsychology as a Neuroscience: What Is Biopsychology, Anyway?PART II: FOUNDATIONS OF BIOPSYCHOLOGY2. Evolution, Genetics, and Experience: Thinking about the Biology of Behavior3. Anatomy of the Nervous System: Systems, Structures, and Cells That Make Up Your Nervous System4. Neural Conduction and Synaptic Transmission: How Neurons Send and Receive Signals5. The Research Methods of Biopsychology: Understanding What Biopsychologists Do PART III: SENSORY AND MOTOR SYSTEMS6. The Visual System: How We See7. Mechanisms of Perception: Hearing, Touch, Smell, Taste, and Attention: How You Know the World8. The Sensorimotor System: How You Move PART IV: BRAIN PLASTICITY9. Development of the Nervous System: From Fertilized Egg to You10. Brain Damage and Neuroplasticity: Can the Brain Recover from Damage?11. Learning, Memory, and Amnesia: How Your Brain Stores InformationPART V: BIOPSYCHOLOGY OF MOTIVATION12. Hunger, Eating, and Health: Why Do Many People Eat Too Much?13. Hormones and Sex: What's Wrong with the Mamawawa?14. Sleep, Dreaming, and Circadian Rhythms: How Much Do You Need to Sleep?15. Drug Use, Drug Addiction, and the Brain's Reward Circuits: Chemicals That Harm with PleasurePART VI: DISORDERS OF COGNITION AND EMOTION16. Lateralization, Language, and the Split Brain: The Left Brain and the Right Brain17. Biopsychology of Emotion, Stress, and Health: Fear, the Dark Side of Emotion18. Biopsychology of Psychiatric Disorders: The Brain Unhinged

In English.