1st Edition
Biopsychology and Your Mind The Mental Mechanics of Your Thoughts, Feelings, Emotions and Their Disorders
By Neil McNaughton
Copyright 2026
224 Pages
65 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
224 Pages
65 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
224 Pages
65 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Biopsychology and Your Mind explains the way your mind works – and why it sometimes doesn’t. The key is your mental mechanics: molecular, neural, and biological mechanisms. This book explores the unexpected properties of thoughts, feelings, emotions, and actions, examining phenomena such as blindsight, associative learning, intact memory in amnesia, and dreaming during sleep. Using... Read more
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
PATHS THROUGH THIS BOOK
1: The Multi-Hued Mind
2: The Mind Machine
3: The Mental Processing Unit
4: Building the Machine
5: What is an Emotion?
6: How Do We Learn?
7: How Do We Remember?
8: Why Do We Sleep?
9: The Big Picture
10: Mental Disorder and Stress
11: Epilogue
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Biography
Neil McNaughton is an Emeritus Professor and Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in the Department of Psychology (Te Tari Whakamātau Hinekaro) at the University of Otago (Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka) in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
