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Behavioral neuroscience, also known as biological psychology, [1] biopsychology, or psychobiology, [2] is part of the broad, interdisciplinary field of neuroscience, with its primary focus being on the biological and neural substrates underlying human experiences and behaviors, as in our psychology.
Behavioral Neuroscience is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Psychological Association. It was established in 1983 and covers research in behavioral neuroscience. [1] The journal has implemented the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines. [2]
Behavioral neuroscience refers to an approach that emphasizes the importance of understanding the brain and nervous system in order to understand behavior, thought and emotion. The approach utilizes experiments that measure or manipulate behavioral variables.
St. Thomas Aquinas High School students Nicholas Tonzola III and Marissa Nieves recently had their groundbreaking research on dementia published in the International Youth Neuroscience Journal.
Behavioral neurology is a subspecialty of neurology that studies the impact of neurological damage and disease upon behavior, memory, and cognition, and the treatment thereof. Two fields associated with behavioral neurology are neuropsychiatry and neuropsychology .
Physiological psychology is a subdivision of behavioral neuroscience (biological psychology) that studies the neural mechanisms of perception and behavior through direct manipulation of the brains of nonhuman animal subjects in controlled experiments.
The International Behavioral Neuroscience Society (IBNS), was founded in 1992. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The goal of the IBNS is to "encourage research and education in the field of behavioral neuroscience". Its current president is Mikhail Pletnikov .
The field of psychometrics contributed to clinical neuropsychology through individuals such as Francis Galton (1822–1911) who collected quantitative data on physical and sensory characteristics, Karl Pearson (1857–1936) who established the statistics which psychology now relies on, Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920) who created the first ...