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Behavioral neuroscience
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"Biological psychology" redirects here. For the journals, see Behavioral Neuroscience (journal); Biological Psychology (journal); and Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience.
For related topics, see Affective neuroscience, Behavioral neurology, Cognitive neuroscience, Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology, and Social neuroscience.
Behavioral neuroscience, also known as biological psychology,[1] biopsychology, or psychobiology,[2] is the application of the principles of biology to the study of physiological, genetic, and developmental mechanisms of behavior in humans and other animals.[3]