HOW NEURONS COMMUNICATE: SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION
Neurotransmitters
Specialized Transmitter Systems
APPLYING PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE Understanding How Drugs Affect Your Brain
THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
The Peripheral Nervous System
The Central Nervous System
BENEATH THE SURFACE It’s a miracle! Psychologists out of a job now that we can
‘see into’ the brain?
THE HIERARCHICAL BRAIN: STRUCTURES AND BEHAVIOURAL
FUNCTIONS
The Hindbrain
The Midbrain
The Forebrain
RESEARCH CLOSE-UP Inside the Brain of a Killer
HEMISPHERIC LATERALIZATION: THE LEFT AND RIGHT
BRAINS
The Split Brain: Dividing the Hemispheres
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Two Minds in One Brain?
PLASTICITY IN THE BRAIN: THE ROLE OF EXPERIENCE
AND THE RECOVERY OF FUNCTION
How Experience Influences Brain Development
Healing the Nervous System
BENEATH THE SURFACE Do We Really Use Only 10 Per Cent of Our Brain Capacity?
THE NERVOUS SYSTEM INTERACTS WITH THE ENDOCRINE
AND IMMUNE SYSTEMS
Interactions with the Endocrine System
Interactions Involving the Immune System
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