Abstract: . . .  biopsychology 1581 Introduction to Biopsychology May 22 nd - 23rd 2006 Biopsychology as ‘Neuroscience’ What is neuroscience? Who practices neuroscience? ‘Roots’ of Biopsychology and its Sub-disciplines William James…… Physiological Psychology, psychopharmacology, neuropsychology, psychophysiology, cognitive neuroscience, comparative psychology Goals of Biopsychology Understanding human disease Understanding normal human behavior Understanding ‘animal’ behavior Biopsychology as Neuroscience ‘Neuroscience’ . . .
. . .  Goals of Biopsychology “Blind sided” a case of unilateral-neglect http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/cr1/neglect.html www.bioscience.org/2003/v8/e/973/figures.htm A patients is shown a clustering of “O”s, “Q”s and “C”’s. They are asked to mark the O’s so that they look like Q’s. Only those on the non-neglected side are marked. A patients is asked to copy an image of a house or an analog clock. Notice that the left side of the images are largely ignored. The Goals of Biopsychology “Reading Monkey Minds” Musallam, S., Corneil, D.B., Greger, B.Scherberger, H. & R. A. Andersen, R.A. (2004). Cognitive Control Signals for Neural Prosthetics. Science , 305 , 258-262.  . . .
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