Customer Reviews

Drugs and Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Pharmacology (4th Edition)

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I am using this book to teach an undergrad course on neurochemistry and behavior. Since we are squeezing a semester into 6 weeks, this book (which is fairly concise at just over 400 pages) was good choice. The first 5 chapters are a solid overview of pharmacology, behavior analysis, and the (very) basics of neuroscience. The remainder of the chapters deal with specific drugs (or classes thereof).

However, I don't think I would use it to teach a full-term course. The depth is rather uneven, with some chapters barely skirting the surface of some topics and digressions into experimental minutae in others. Also, the drug chapters fall into a very predictable pattern (history, pharmacokinetics, effects on unconditioned behavior, effects on conditioned behavior, self-administration, etc., etc.) which, though I can appreciate it from an organizational standpoint, became very tedious to teach (and read) after the first few.

This is one of the better textbooks I have read. It is well written, concise and easy to understand. Concepts were explained well, and verbosity and tangental information were avoided. In addition, the small size and paperback cover made it easy to transport and handle.

Book was how it was described online, and it arrived on time. Perfect for my class. Great service, thank you!

It gets the job done, if you can manage to read it. Considering the day and age of science, this book could be a lot less dry. It sounds like it was written by someone who didn't really care for the topic.

It definitely isn't the best book ever made, but it does its job: inform. Fine with me.

i got this for a class i took. it's very interesting. it details behavior exhibited from different drugs (just like it says) not a lot of fluff- just basic and informative

This book came to me in perfect condition, brand new it seems. I needed this book for a class and although I don't like spending money on text books because they are so expensive and pretty much null and void after the class I need them for, this book was a good value and has come in handy.