Biopsychology aims to provide psychology students with an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this key area of psychological knowledge. Basic Neural and Hormonal Processes and their Influences on Behavior, The Nervous System and Neuronal Activity, The Central Nervous System, The Peripheral Nervous System and the Endocrine System, Cortical Functions, Some Methods and Techniques Used to Investigate Cortical Functions, The Cerebral Cirtex, Language and the Brain, Asymmetries in the Cerebral Hemispheres and the ''Split-Brain'', Awareness, Bodily Rhythms, The Functions of Sleep, The Functions of Dreaming, Hypnosis and Hypnotic Phenomena, Some Drugs and Their Effects on Behavior, Motivation and Emotion and Stress, Motivation and the Brain, Emotion and the Brain, Theories of Emotion, Stress, References, Index, Picture Credits.