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by: Neil R. Carlson  List Price: $123.33 Price: $72.01 You Save: $51.32 (42%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 612.8 EAN: 9780205381753 Edition: 8 ISBN: 0205381758 Label: Allyn & Bacon Manufacturer: Allyn & Bacon Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 720 Publication Date: July 25, 2003 Publisher: Allyn & Bacon Studio: Allyn & Bacon Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: The Eighth Edition of Physiology of Behavior continues its tradition as the most comprehensive, current, and teachable text for physiological psychology. This classic text incorporates the latest discoveries in the rapidly changing fields of neuroscience and physiological psychology and offers the most comprehensive and integrative coverage of research and theory in contemporary behavioral neuroscience. Thoughtfully organized, it offers scholarly, yet accessible coverage and effectively emphasizes the dynamic interaction between biology and behavior. Collaboration with a talented artist has provided beautiful, accurate, and informative full-color illustrations that further enhance the appeal to both students and professors alike. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Assigned Text BookThis was my textbook for Behavioral Neuroscience (Pysch 390 I think) at UMass Amherst. It can get kind of verbose, but its immense detail more than makes up for it. I still use it for a reference source. I think it's also worth noting that Barron's GRE Psychology prep book recommends this book. I got an A in the class, and the science side of psychology is really not my thing at all. It's a good book, you should get it :) Rating:  - okthe book came in a reasonable amount of time but was not the same quality as was initially stated. It said the book was brand new but it had bent corners. Rating: - Book NOT in Good condition.Company was prompt and service was great. However, the book was listed in 'good' condition and it is not. I can ignore the writing and hilighting but it had a defect in which it was missing about 50 of it's pages. To me missing pages does not qualify as 'good' condition. These people obviously do not check the quality of thier books. Rating:  - Best Textbook I've Ever ReadI would like to find Neil Carlson and shake his hand. This is is without a doubt one of the best textbooks I've had the pleasure of using. I'm in my senior year of studying cognitive sciences and so far I've had two courses that used this book. When studying for exams in those course I simply read the relevant chapters. The material is concise, well-organized, summarized just when you need it to be summarized, pockmarked with occasional interesting tidbits and stories, just to keep you ... Read More Rating: - A good primer to behavioral neuroscienceThis is a good introductory book for psychology students with little or no background in physics, chemistry, and biology. The author does a good job in explaining difficult concepts in simple layman's terms. I do wish however that he would expand a little bit more on neural development. Folks with a good background in neuroscience should consider using Kandel, Schwartz, and Jessell's Principles of Neural Science instead. 
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