Overview
- Gives a solid introduction to neuroscience for students and researchers with no biomedical background
- Provides a basic guide for psychologists and other social scientists who want to understand key concepts in neuroscience
- Can be used as a complement in courses of neurophysiology and neuropharmacology in careers outside biological or medical fields
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Basics
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Front Matter
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Neuroscience Fields of Special Interest for Psychology
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Introduction to Neuroscience
- Neuroscience and psychology
- Neurophysiology
- Neurochemistry
- Bioelectricity
- Neuropharmacology
- Neurotransmitters
- Nervous system
- Neuroplasticity
- Learning and memory
- Computational neuroscience
- Neural correlates of behavior
- Neuroanatomy
- Methods in neuroscience research
- Biophysics
- psychopharmacology
About this book
This textbook is intended to give an introduction to neuroscience for students and researchers with no biomedical background. Primarily written for psychologists, this volume is a digest giving a rapid but solid overview for people who want to inform themselves about the core fields and core concepts in neuroscience but don’t need so many anatomical or biochemical details given in “classical” textbooks for future doctors or biologists. It does not require any previous knowledge in basic science, such as physics or chemistry. On the other hand, it contains chapters that do go beyond the issues dealt with in most neuroscience textbooks: One chapter about mathematical modelling in neuroscience and another about “tools of neuroscience” explaining important methods.
The book is divided in two parts. The first part presents core concepts in neuroscience:
- Electrical Signals in the Nervous System
- Basics of Neuropharmacology
- Neurotransmitters
The second part presents an overview of the neuroscience fields of special interest for psychology:
- Clinical Neuropharmacology
- Inputs, Outputs and Multisensory Processing
- Neural Plasticity in Humans
- Mathematical Modeling in Neuroscience
- Subjective Experience and its Neural Basis
The last chapter, “Tools of Neuroscience” presents important methodogical approaches in neuroscience with a special focus on brain imaging.
Neuroscience for Psychologists aims to fill a gap in the teaching literature by providing an introductory text for psychology students that can also be used in other social sciences courses, as well as a complement in courses of neurophysiology, neuropharmacology or similar in careers outside as well as inside biological or medical fields. Students of data sciences, chemistry and physics as well as engineering interested in neurosciencewill also profit from the text.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neuroscience for Psychologists
Book Subtitle: An Introduction
Editors: Marc L. Zeise
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47645-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47644-1Published: 01 December 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-47645-8Published: 30 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 318
Number of Illustrations: 37 b/w illustrations, 71 illustrations in colour
Topics: Psychology, general, Social Sciences, general, Neurochemistry, Psychopharmacology