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 The field of behavioral neuroscience is the broader contemporary development of the earlier field of physiological psychology, the original field of psychology as in the writings of Wilhelm Wound and William James. Today it's bothered with the neural and biological bases of act, including effects of cut and electrical incentive, recording of electrical activity, genetic factors, hormonal influences, neurotransmitter and chemical factors, anatomical substrates, effects of drugs, developmental processes, and environmental factors. In short, behavioral neuroscience is that condition of the broad, associative field of neuroscience anxious with the biological bases of behavior. On the opposite hand, the sector of neuroscience is that aspect of the sector of neuroscience concerned with the more complex phenomena of mind and brain, particularly for the human animal. Substantive topics covered in behavioral neuroscience include, broadly, learning and memory, motivation and emotion, sensory processes, and last, genetic and molecular biological substrates of behavior. Behavioral neuroscience may be a prime field for studying the interface between the environment and the organism because the nervous system is the body’s “rapid response” system for adapting to external stimuli. In fact, of the three physiological systems that have evolved altogether vertebrates to interpret environmental cues – nervous, endocrine, and immune – it's the systemanervosum that enables almost instantaneous responses to external challenges.  

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