The book "Brain and Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience" by bestselling author Bob Garrett and new co-author Gerald Hough is a tool to ignite students' enthusiasm for behavioral neuroscience. Garrett and Hough unlock this difficult, complex field. They encourage the reader to engage with current scientific discoveries and the fundamental theories that arise from them through exceptional, detailed illustrations and reader-friendly examples that facilitate understanding of the material. 

In this way, the field becomes accessible to biology and psychology students, while accompanying case studies place the book in a context friendly to health sciences, including medicine. Special features on current events and cutting-edge research findings help readers from different disciplines make connections between the material and their own areas of interest, emphasizing the interdisciplinary, multifaceted nature of neuroscience.

Contents

Foreword
About the authors

1. What is behavioral neuroscience?

2. Communication within the nervous system

3. Organization and functions of the nervous system

4. Methodology, ethics, and ethics of