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PSY 340/BSC 340 Brain and Behavior
Lecture Notes (Spring 2025)

Below you will find two different kinds of materials

  • NOTES (or POWERPOINT HANDOUTS) are the complete set of materials that I use for each individual class lecture. You should seriously consider downloading these and printing them out.
  • [OUTLINES] or [POWERPOINTS/PPTs] are the visual (and sometimes sound) materials for a class that I will use on my computer screen and which I will talk about in each lecture. If we were holding class face-to-face, the OUTLINES or POWERPOINTS would be the material I'd be projecting on a screen in the front of the classroom. There is no need for your to download these.
 

Module 1: The Major Issues in Biopsychology: General Introduction
Mon Jan 13
Class 01: General Introduction to Course • NOTES  [OUTLINE] for First Day of Class
Wed Jan 15
Class 02: The Biological Approach to Behavior • NOTES  [OUTLINE]
Fri Jan 17
Class 03: The Genetics of Behavior • NOTES  [OUTLINE]

Module 2: Nerve Cells and Impulses
Mon Jan 20
Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday/Inauguration Day • No Class
Wed Jan 22 Cells of the Central Nervous System • PPT  (ppt slides 11 pgs.)
Fri Jan 24
Neural Impulse (a) • PPT (ppt slides 7 pgs.)
Mon Jan 27 Neural Impulse (b) • NOTES [OUTLINE]

Module 3: Synapses
Wed Jan 29 The Concept of the Synapse • NOTES [OUTLINE]
Fri Jan 31 Chemical Events at the Synapse • NOTES [OUTLINE]
Mon Feb 03
Synapses, Drugs, & Addiction (Substance Abuse) • NOTES [OUTLINE]

Module 4: Anatomy of the Nervous System
Wed Feb 05
Structure of the Vertebrate Nervous System • NOTES [OUTLINE]
Fri Feb 07
The Cerebral Cortex (a) • NOTES [OUTLINE]
Mon Feb 10 The Cerebral Cortex (b) Complete

Module 5: Research Methods
Wed Feb 12 Research Methods in Bio/Neuropsychology • NOTES [OUTLINE]
Fri Feb 14
Complete Research Methods...
  • Large Scale Brain Networks • NOTES [Outline] (not in book)
Mon Feb 17 All classes cancelled due to snow storm
Wed Feb 19 Test #1 on Modules 1-4 (but NOT Module 5)

Module 6: Brain Development
Fri Feb 21 Development of the Brain • NOTES [Outline]
Mon Feb 24 Plasticity after Brain Damage • NOTES [Outline]
Wed Feb 26 Wellness Day • No Class

Module 7: Vision
Fri Feb 28 Visual Coding • NOTES [Outline]
Mon Mar 03
Parallel Processing in the Visual Cortex
Wed Mar 05
Test #2 on Modules 5-7

Module 8: Wakefulness & Sleep
Fri Mar 07 Rhythms of Waking and Sleeping • NOTES [Outline]
Mon Mar 10 Stages of Sleep & Brain Mechanisms; Sleep Disorders• NOTES [Outline]
Wed Mar 12 Why Sleep? Why REM? Why Dreams? • NOTES [Outline]

Module 9: Reproductive Behaviors
Fri Mar 14 Sex and Hormones • NOTES [Outline]

Spring Break: March 17-21 • No Class
Mon Mar 24 Class cancelled
Wed Mar 26
Variations in Sexual Behavior • NOTES [Outline]

Module 10: Emotional Behaviors
Fri Mar 28
What is Emotion? • NOTES [Outline]
Mon Mar 31 Attack and Escape Behaviors • NOTES [Outline]
Wed Apr 02
Stress & Health • NOTES [Outline]

Module 11: Learning & Memory, Language
Fri Apr 04
Learning, Memory & Memory Loss; Alzheimer's Disease • NOTES [Outline]
Mon Apr 07
Test #3 on Modules 8, 9, & 10 (Module 11 will be on Test #4)












   


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