Overview
The field of behavioral neuroscience has seen a recent explosion of experimental techniques, adding to the sometimes bewildering array of strategies available to study behavior-brain relationships. Behavioural Neuroscience: A Practical Approach, available as a two-volume set, provides the most up-to-date, comprehensive guide available for both choosing and successfully implementing appropriate methods in the laboratory. Each chapter includes detailed protocols that consider both theoretical and practical considerations. Volume I covers computerized methods of control, as well as the more cognitive aspects of behavior, including learning, attention, and memory. Volume II focuses on methods for studying locomotor activity, motivation and affect, drug discrimination and signal detection. The volumes will be of significant interest to a wide variety of students and researchers in neuroscience, experimental psychology, and pharmacology.
This book contains black-and-white illustrations.
Editorials
Thomas H. Jobe
This is a the second volume of a two-volume work that authoritatively describes behavioral techniques used in animal models of depression and anxiety. The first volume covered cognition, learning, and memory models in animal species such as rodents, birds, and monkeys. The purpose of this volume is to help researchers begin to standardize their procedures for behavioral models of depression and anxiety in animals. This will help cut down the amount of variance in procedural detail from lab to lab. The authors describe procedures such as measurement of locomotor activity, motoric rotation, anxiolytic effects, learned helplessness, intracranial self-stimulation, drug-discrimination assays, signal-detection theory, and statistics used to measure behavioral outcome. The intended audience is the laboratory researcher, but clinical neuroscientists generally will benefit from reading this book because it will help them critically appraise basic neuroscience research. There are many black-and-white diagrams that well illustrate the basic concepts of behavioral outcome. There are also many photographs of equipment that are helpful in aiding labs to begin to standardize their equipment. This is an authoritative book that brings together many experts in the behavioral techniques outcome analysis that is so important in trying to identify a specific function with a particular location in the brain or with the action of a particular neuromodulator.From The Critics
Reviewer: Thomas H. Jobe, MD(University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine)Description: This is a the second volume of a two-volume work that authoritatively describes behavioral techniques used in animal models of depression and anxiety. The first volume covered cognition, learning, and memory models in animal species such as rodents, birds, and monkeys.
Purpose: The purpose of this volume is to help researchers begin to standardize their procedures for behavioral models of depression and anxiety in animals. This will help cut down the amount of variance in procedural detail from lab to lab. The authors describe procedures such as measurement of locomotor activity, motoric rotation, anxiolytic effects, learned helplessness, intracranial self-stimulation, drug-discrimination assays, signal-detection theory, and statistics used to measure behavioral outcome.
Audience: The intended audience is the laboratory researcher, but clinical neuroscientists generally will benefit from reading this book because it will help them critically appraise basic neuroscience research.
Features: There are many black-and-white diagrams that well illustrate the basic concepts of behavioral outcome. There are also many photographs of equipment that are helpful in aiding labs to begin to standardize their equipment.
Assessment: This is an authoritative book that brings together many experts in the behavioral techniques outcome analysis that is so important in trying to identify a specific function with a particular location in the brain or with the action of a particular neuromodulator.
3 Stars from Doody