1. Biological Roots of Behavior Chapter 2 (pp. 40-64) Motivated Behaviors Homeostasis Autonomic Nervous System: Activation and Arousal

2. What are Motivated Behaviors?

3. Behavioral Neuroscience Focus on the Neural Bases of Behavior

6. Neural Bases of Behavior

8. Why Do We Eat?

10. Glucoreceptor Signaling Adipoise Tissue and Leptin Examples of Peripheral Signals:

11. Obesity: Homeostatic Failure / Leptin Deficient and Resistant

16. Can we identify specific brain areas associated with emotion, including aggression?

20. End: First Class Lecture

21. Psychology: Introduction to the Biological Perspective Motivated Behaviors - Eating Behavior Aggression; Response to Threat Sex Behavior Drug-Seeking Behavior

23. Sex Behavior Focus on Hormones and the Hypothalamus

26. Other Motivated Behaviors?

27. Drug Seeking Behavior

29. Intracranial Self-Stimulation (ICSS) Rats lever press for electrical stimulation into brain Brain sites may mediate natural rewards (food, water, sex) Note: Brain stimulation also evokes feeding, drinking, maternal and sexual behaviors