1. Biopsychology As a Neuroscience: What Is Biopsychology, Anyway? Jan 20 to Jan 29
Chapter 1. What Is Biopsychology? What Is the Relation Between Biopsychology and the Other Disciplines of Neuroscience? What Types of Research Characterize the Biopsychological Approach? What Are the Divisions of Biopsychology? Converging Operations: How Do Biopsychologists Work Together? Scientific Interference: How Do Biopsychologists Study the Unobservable Workings of the Brain?

Chapter 3. The Anatomy of the Nervous System: The Systems, Structures, and Cells That Make Up Your Nervous System. Feb 3 to Feb 12
What is the general layout of the nervous system? What kind of cells make up the nervous system? What are the major divisions of the brain? What are the major structures of the brain?

Chapter 4.Neural Conduction and Synaptic Transmission: How Neurons Send and Receive Signals. Feb 17 to Feb 19
Why does a neuron have a resting membrane potential? How is a neural impulse conducted? What chemicals are involved in synaptic transmission? What are the main kinds of neurotransmitters?

FIRST EXAM FEB 19

Chapter 5. The Research Methods of Biopsychology: Understanding What Biopsychologists Do. Feb 24 to March 4
How can we see a living brain? How can we record activity in the brain? What invasive methods are used to study the brain? What is genetic engineering? What is neuropsychological testing? What are the behavioral methods used in cognitive neuroscience? What are some paradigms of animal behavior?

Chapter 9. Development of the Nervous System: From Fertilized Egg to You. March 3 to March 11
What are the phases of neural development? What happens to the brain after the baby is born What effect does experience have on neural development? Do adult brains have neuroplasticity? What are some of the disorders of neurodevelopment?

SPRING BREAK

Chapter 10. Brain Damage and Neuroplasticity: Can the Brain Recover from Damage? March 23 to March 25
What causes brain damage? What are some of the main neuropsychological diseases? What animal models can we use for studying human neuropsychological diseases? Can we fix brain damage?

Chapter 13. Hormones and Sex: What’s Wrong with the Mamawawa? March 30 to April 1
What does the neuroendocrine system do? How do hormones influence sexual development? Do gonadal hormones affect adult behavior? Is sexual orientation genetic?

Chapter 15. Drug Addiction and the Brain’s Reward Circuits: Chemicals That Harm with Pleasure. April 6 to April 8
What are the basic principles of drug action? How does learning play a role in drug tolerance and withdrawal? What are the five most commonly abused drugs? What are the biopsychological theories of addiction? What is intracranial self-stimulation? What is the neural mechanism of motivation and addiction?

APRIL 13: Exam II

Chapter 16. Lateralization, Language, and the Split Brain: The Left Brain and Right Brain of Language. April 27 to April 29
What is lateralization of function? What is the difference between the left and right hemisphere? What is the current neuroscience view of language? What is the current neuroscience view of dyslexia?

Chapter 17. Biopsychology of Emotion, Stress and Health: Fear, the Dark Side of Emotion. April 15 to April 22.
How does emotion work? What are the brain mechanisms for human emotion? What are the neural substrates for fear, defensiveness, and aggression? Why does stress play such a powerful role in health?

AIDS Pandemic: Overview to the most serious pandemic in recorded history. May 4 to May 6
How does the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) invade cells? How does HIV destroy the immune system? What opportunistic infections occur with an HIV infection? What does the virus do to neural functioning? What is the prognosis for a vaccine? How are the existing treatments working?

Final Exam Week: Exam III