CHAPTER 3: BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR 3ANEURAL COMMUNICATIONSNEUROTRANSMITTERS ORIGINS OF STUDYING THE BRAIN Plato believed the mind was located in the spherical head Aristotle believed mind was located in the heart Phrenology – Studying bumps on the head to reveal a person’s mental abilities and character traits, Invented by Franz Gall in 1800s PSYCHOLOGY AND BIOLOGY Everything psychological is simultaneously biological Biological Psychology – branch of psych that studies links between biology and behavior We are bio-psycho-social systems.…
Territoriality - behavior of animals that enables individuals to occupy and dominate an area. Territory is an area where one or more individuals defend the area. Thus the two are interpedently interacting with each other to defend the area.…
New, A. S., Goodman, M., Triebwasser, J., & Siever, L. J. (2008). Recent advances in the biological study of personality disorders. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 31, 441-461. doi: 10.1016/j.psc.2008.03.011…
36. Under the Biological Perspective: How has the depressed brain influenced the development of mood disorders?…
The study of the biology of behavior has a long history, but biopsychology did not develop into a major neuroscientific discipline until the 20th century. Although it is not possible to specify the exact date of biopsychology’s birth, the publication of The Organization of Behavior in 1949 by D. O. Hebb played a key role in its emergence (Pinel, 2009).…
Biological Psychology is more known for behavioral and neurobiology neuroscience. This is a very interesting and exciting one. It is chiefly concerned with elucidating the neurobiological basis of psychological and behavioral phenomena.…
In this paper the author will analyze how neuro processes affect behavior and impact the field of biological psychology. The author will also address the role of excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials, synaptic transmission, and receptors in producing and regulatory behavior.…
This course provides an introduction to the investigation of physiological and neurological basis for human behavior. The student will be able to study and discuss various influences on personality development, such as pre-natal maternal behavior; gender; nature versus nurture; brain development; genetic composition; sensory motor interactions; learning disabilities; drug impacts; and neurological diseases.…
-Behavior has physiological bases: Behavior focuses on genes, hormones, neurotransmitters, and localized part of the brain. Case Study: HM and his personality change.…
This course is designed to expose you to the underlying physiological mechanisms of behavior. Physiological psychology is a complex but fascinating field of study. It explores the relationship between our biological systems and behavior. Structure and function of the nervous system from the neuron to the brain, as well as the interrelationships between the brain and such behaviors as eating, sleeping, learning, memory, emotion, and mental disorders will be discussed using examples from the behavior of both humans and lower organisms.…
The bio/psycho/social model stipulates that “mental disorder can be attributed to many biological, psychological and social variables that work in tandem to produce healthy or unhealthy behavior” (Kearney & Trull, 2015, p. 47). The problem with this model is that it does not take into account that each human person has a free will gifted to them from God. Free will allows human beings to be the authors of their own actions instead of believing that external conditions control them.…
Cognitive Approach (mental processes involved in knowing how we direct our attention, how we perceive, how we remember, etc)…
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a severe chronic mental illness associated with psychiatric distress, social maladjustment, poor quality of life, and medical comorbidity. Yet, for the past twenty years it has been a controversial mental illness diagnosis not only due to its subjectivity but also, because of factors that have increased its prevalence and sudden onset, such as compensation for long-term disability and withdrawal from combat duty (Schlenger, Kulka, Fairbank, Jordan, Hough, Marmar, & Weiss, 2006). Despite the severity of the syndrome, people with PTSD tend to receive inadequate mental health services in the public sector and their symptoms often go unrecognized. Impediments to mental health treatment, in general, have included: concerns about cost, lack of time to seek care, stigma, or feelings among affected persons that they can take care of mental health symptoms independently or other people need the mental professionals services more than themselves (altruistic concerns in times of disaster) (Stuber, Galea, Boscarino, & Schlesinger, 2006). Although high health care costs must be contained and services increased, the value system that provides the foundation of nursing must be preserved; nurses have an ethical obligation to respect clients and provide or obtain needed health services for them.…
Rasmusson, A. M., Hauger, R. L., Morgan, C. A., et al (2000) Biological Psychiatry, 47, 526–539…
Saldanha, C. J., & Silver, R. (2011). Hormones and Behavior. Society of Behavioral Neuroendocrinology , 304-312.…