The book Brain and Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience, by bestselling author Bob Garrett and new co-author Gerald Hough, serves as a tool to ignite students' enthusiasm for behavioral neuroscience. Garrett and Hough unlock this challenging, complex field.

They encourage the reader to engage with current scientific discoveries and the fundamental theories arising from them through exceptional, detailed illustrations and reader-friendly examples that facilitate understanding of the material. In this way, the field becomes accessible to biology and psychology students.

The accompanying case studies place the book in a context that is friendly to health sciences, including medicine. Special features on current events and cutting-edge research findings help readers from various fields make connections between the material and their own areas of interest, emphasizing the interdisciplinary, multifaceted nature of neuroscience.

Contents:

• Foreword
• About the Authors
• 1. What is Behavioral Neuroscience?
• 2. Communication within the Nervous System
• 3. Organization and Functions of the Nervous System
• 4. Methodology, Ethics, and Research Standards
• 5. Addictive Substances, Addiction, and Reward
• 6. Motivation and Regulation of Internal States
• 7. The Biology of Sex
• 8. Emotion and Health
• 9. Hearing and Language
• 10. Vision and Visual Perception
• 11. Somatosensory Systems and Movement
• 12. Learning and Memory
• 13. Intelligence and Cognitive Functioning
• 14. Psychological Disorders
• 15. Sleep and Consciousness
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Name Index
• Subject Index