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Behavioral Neuroscience

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1. Body plan in which organs or parts present on both sides of the body are mirror images in appearance.






2. Proposed nonmaterial entity responsible for intelligence - attention - awareness and consciousness.






3. Quandary of explaining a nonmaterial mind in command of a material body.






4. 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.






5. 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.






6. A small protrusion or bump formed by the folding of the cerebral cortex.






7. A group of cells forming a cluster that can be identified with special stains to form a functional grouping.






8. Map of the neocortex based on the organization - structure - and distribution of the cells.






9. Diencephalon structure through which information from all sensory systems is integrated into the appropriate region of the neocortex.






10. Harry Jerison's quantitative measure of brain size obtained from the ratio of actual brain size to expected brain size - according to the principle of proper mass - for an animal of a particular body size.






11. Neurosurgery in which electrodes implanted in the brain stimulate a targeted area with a low-voltage electrical current to facilitate behavior.






12. Of the mind; an explanation of behavior as a function of the nonmaterial mind.






13. Approved experiment directed toward developing a treatment.






14. Hypothesis that the movements that we make and those that we perceive in others are essential features of our conscious behavior.






15. Wound to the brain that results from a blow to the head..






16. The bones - or segments - that form the spinal column.






17. Large collection of axons coursing together outside of the central nervous system.






18. 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.






19. Literally - half a sphere - referring to one side of the cerebral cortex or of one side of the cerebellum.






20. 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.






21. Cerebral cortex where visual processing begins - lying at the back of the brain ad beneath the occipital bone.






22. The general principle that sensory fibers are located dorsally and motors fibers are located ventrally.






23. Synonym for mind - an entity once proposed to be the source of human behavior.






24. Cerebral Cortex that functions to direct movements toward a goal or to perform a task - such as grasping an object - lying posterior to the central sulcus and beneath the parietal bone at the top of the skull.






25. Philosophical position that holds that behavior can be explained as a function of the nervous system without explanatory recourse to the mind.






26. Major structure of the forebrain - consisting of two virtually identical hemispheres (left and right) and responsible for most conscious behavior.






27. The nervous system's potential for physical or chemical change that enhances its adaptability to environmental change and its ability to compensate for injury.






28. Major structure of the brainstem specialized for coordinating and learning skilled movements. In large-brained animals - it may also have a role in the coordination of other mental processes.






29. Evolutionarily the oldest part of the brain; contains pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum structures that coordinate and control most voluntary and involuntary movements.






30. 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.






31. Areas of the nervous system rich in fat-sheathed neural axons that form the connections between brain cells.






32. Group of organisms that can interbreed.






33. 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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34. Floor (area below the ventricle) of the midbrain; a collection of nuclei with movement-related - species-specific - and pain-perception functions.






35. 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.






36. Three layers of protective tissue - dura mater - arachnoid - and pia mater - that encase the brain and spinal cord.






37. Idea that selection for improved brain cooling through increased blood circulation in the brains of early hominids enabled the brain to grow larger.






38. Animal that has both a brain and a spinal cord.






39. General term referring to primates that walk upright - including all forms of humans - living and extinct.






40. Learned behaviors that are passed on from on generation to the next through teaching and experience.






41. Condition in which a person can display some rudimentary behaviors - such as smiling - or utter a few words but is otherwise not conscious.






42. 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.






43. Surgical removal of a cerebral hemisphere.






44. 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






45. A specialized 'nerve cell' engaged in information processing.






46. Condition in which a person is alive but unable to communicate or to function independently at even the most basic level.






47. Simple nervous system that has no brain or spinal cord but consists of neurons that receive sensory information and connect directly to other neurons that move muscles.






48. Conducting toward a central nervous system structure.






49. 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.






50. Decrease in the activity of a neuron or brain area.