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Behavioral Neuroscience
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1. The brain and spinal cord that together mediate behavior.
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Neoteny
Gyrus (Gyri)
2. Movement related to sensory inputs - such as turning the head to see the source of a sound.
Gyrus (Gyri)
Orienting movement
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Common Ancestor
3. Part of the autonomic nervous system; arouses the body for action - such as mediating the involuntary fight-or-flight response to alarm by increasing hear rate and blood pressure.
Chordate
Sulcus (Sulci)
Thalamus
Sympathetic Division
4. Disparate forebrain structures lying between the neocortex and the brainstem that form a functional system controlling affective and motivated behaviors and certain forms of memory; includes cingulate cortex - amygdala - hippocampus - among other str
Orienting movement
Hemisphere
Neoteny
Limbic system
5. Neurosurgery in which electrodes implanted in the brain stimulate a targeted area with a low-voltage electrical current to facilitate behavior.
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Sympathetic Division
Excitation
Dermatome
6. A specialized 'nerve cell' engaged in information processing.
Excitation
Neuroplasticity
Neuron
Mind-Body Problem
7. Increase in the activity of a neuron or brain area.
Chordate
Excitation
Neuron
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
8. One of a set of 12 nerve pairs that control sensory and motor functions of the head - neck - and internal organs.
Parietal Lobe
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
Frontal Lobe
Cranial nerve
9. Areas of the nervous system rich in fat-sheathed neural axons that form the connections between brain cells.
White Matter
Cranial nerve
Spinal Cord
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
10. The general principle that sensory fibers are located dorsally and motors fibers are located ventrally.
Parietal Lobe
Sympathetic Division
Law of Bell and Magendie
Meninges
11. Learned behaviors that are passed on from on generation to the next through teaching and experience.
Psyche
Culture
Cerebellum
Alzheimer's Disease
12. Disorder of the motor system correlated with a loss of dopamine in the brain an characterized by tremors - muscular rigidity - and a reduction in voluntary movement.
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13. The bones - or segments - that form the spinal column.
Vertebrae
White Matter
Brainstem
Afferent
14. Cerebral Cortex often generally characterized as performing the brain's 'executive' functions - such as decision making - lying anterior to the central sulcus and beneath the frontal bone of the skull.
Tourettes's Syndrome
Frontal Lobe
Sulcus (Sulci)
Species
15. Literally - half a sphere - referring to one side of the cerebral cortex or of one side of the cerebellum.
Midbrain
Tract
Stroke
Hemisphere
16. Synonym for mind - an entity once proposed to be the source of human behavior.
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
Forebrain
Psyche
17. Condition in which a person can display some rudimentary behaviors - such as smiling - or utter a few words but is otherwise not conscious.
Mind
Law of Bell and Magendie
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
Brainstem
18. Floor (area below the ventricle) of the midbrain; a collection of nuclei with movement-related - species-specific - and pain-perception functions.
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Tegmentum
Vertebrae
Frontal Lobe
19. Areas of the nervous system composed predominantly of cell bodies and blood vessels that function either to collect and modify information or to support this activity.
Mind
Gray Matter
Temporal Lobe
Meninges
20. The nervous system's potential for physical or chemical change that enhances its adaptability to environmental change and its ability to compensate for injury.
Neuroplasticity
Hominid
Ganglia
Culture
21. Condition in which a person is alive but unable to communicate or to function independently at even the most basic level.
Temporal Lobe
Reticular Formation
Radiator Hypothesis
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
22. Evolutionarily the newest part of the brain; coordinates advanced cognitive functions such as thinking - planning - and language; contains the limbic system - basal ganglia - and the neocortex.
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Forebrain
Orienting movement
Central Nervous System (CNS)
23. Process in which maturation is delayed - and so an adult retains infant characteristics; idea derived from the observation that newly evolved species resemble the young of their common ancestors.
Neoteny
Hominid
Dermatome
Hypothalamus
24. Three layers of protective tissue - dura mater - arachnoid - and pia mater - that encase the brain and spinal cord.
Excitation
Meninges
Nerve
Hemispherectomy
25. Sudden appearance of neurological symptom as a result of severe interruption of blood flow.
Stroke
Cerebrum
Radiator Hypothesis
Segmentation
26. Newest - outer layer (new bark) of the forebrain and composed of about six layers of gray matter that creates or reality.
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
Vertebrae
Stroke
Encephalization quotient
27. Fiber system connecting the two cerebral hemispheres to provide a route for direct communication between them.
Clinical Trial
Tourettes's Syndrome
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
Corpus Callosum
28. Quandary of explaining a nonmaterial mind in command of a material body.
Mind-Body Problem
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Dermatome
Orienting movement
29. Group of organisms that can interbreed.
Species
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
Hypothalamus
30. Darwin's theory for explaining how new species evolve and how existing species change over time. Differential success in the reproduction of different characteristics (phenotypes) results from the interaction of organisms with their environment.
Species
Cytoarchitectonic map
Temporal Lobe
Natural Selection
31. Phylogenetic tree that branches repeatedly - suggesting a taxonomy of organisms based on the time sequence in which evolutionary branches arise.
Cladogram
Frontal Lobe
Natural Selection
Excitation
32. Approved experiment directed toward developing a treatment.
Chordate
Clinical Trial
Species-typical behavior
Cytoarchitectonic map
33. Disorder of the basal ganglia characterized by tics; involuntary vocalizations (including curse words and animal sounds); and odd - involuntary movements of the body; especially of the face and head.
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34. Large collection of axons coursing together outside of the central nervous system.
Frontal Lobe
Brainstem
Cerebral Cortex
Nerve
35. Of the mind; an explanation of behavior as a function of the nonmaterial mind.
Forebrain
Hypothalamus
Species-typical behavior
Mentalism
36. Part of the central nervous system encased within the vertebrae (spinal column) tat provides most of the connections between the brain and the rest of the body.
Nerve Set
Spinal Cord
Clinical Trial
Sympathetic Division
37. Division into a number of parts that are similar; refers to the idea that many animals - including vertebrates - are composed of similarly organized body segments.
Materialism
Excitation
Afferent
Segmentation
38. Part of the PNS that regulates the functioning of internal organs and glands.
Mind
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Hindbrain
Central Nervous System (CNS)
39. Conducting toward a central nervous system structure.
Tourettes's Syndrome
Cranial nerve
Nerve
Afferent
40. Philosophical position that holds that behavior can be explained as a function of the nervous system without explanatory recourse to the mind.
Tract
Dermatome
Natural Selection
Materialism
41. A group of cells forming a cluster that can be identified with special stains to form a functional grouping.
Bilateral Symmetry
Species-typical behavior
Nucleus (Nuclei)
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
42. A groove in brain matter - usually a groove found in the neocortex or cerebellum.
Mind-Body Problem
Sulcus (Sulci)
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Cerebellum
43. Area of the skin supplied with afferent nerve fibers by a single spinal-cord dorsal root.
Cerebral Cortex
Limbic system
Dermatome
Parasympathetic Division
44. Body plan in which organs or parts present on both sides of the body are mirror images in appearance.
Bilateral Symmetry
Hypothalamus
Chordate
Hemispherectomy
45. Central part of the brain that contains neural circuits for hearing and seeing as well as orienting movements.
Nerve
Midbrain
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Basal ganglia
46. The 'between brain' that integrates sensory and motor information on its way to the cerebral cortex.
Orienting movement
Diencephalon
Brainstem
Mentalism
47. Decrease in the activity of a neuron or brain area.
Inhibition
Neuron
Embodied Consciousness
Excitation
48. Cortex that functions in connection with hearing - language - and musical abilities and lies below the lateral fissure - beneath the temporal bone at the side of the lobe.
Orienting movement
Afferent
Embodied Consciousness
Temporal Lobe
49. Clear solution of sodium chloride and other salts that fills the ventricles inside the brain and circulates around the brain and spinal cord beneath the arachnoid layer in the subarachnoid space.
Neuron
Radiator Hypothesis
Hemisphere
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
50. Part of the PNS that includes the cranial and spinal nerves to and from the muscles - joints - and skin that produce movement - transmit incoming sensory input - and inform the CNS about the position and movement of body parts.
Cerebellum
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Radiator Hypothesis
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)