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Behavioral Neuroscience

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1. 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.






2. 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.






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






4. 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.






5. Newest - outer layer (new bark) of the forebrain and composed of about six layers of gray matter that creates or reality.






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






7. 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.






8. Forbearer from which two or more lineages or family groups arise and so is ancestral to both groups.






9. Behavior that is characteristic of all members of a species.






10. Central part of the brain that contains neural circuits for hearing and seeing as well as orienting movements.






11. 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.






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






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






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






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






16. Area of the skin supplied with afferent nerve fibers by a single spinal-cord dorsal root.






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






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






19. Outer layer of brain-tissue surface composed of neurons; the human cerebral cortex is heavily folded.






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






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






22. Phylogenetic tree that branches repeatedly - suggesting a taxonomy of organisms based on the time sequence in which evolutionary branches arise.






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






24. 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






25. Surgical removal of a cerebral hemisphere.






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






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






28. One of a set of 12 nerve pairs that control sensory and motor functions of the head - neck - and internal organs.






29. One of four cavities in the brain that contain cerebrospinal fluid that cushions the brain and may play a role in maintaining brain metabolism.






30. 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.






31. 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.






32. That holds that both a nonmaterial mind and the material body contribute to behavior.






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






34. Group of organisms that can interbreed.






35. Approved experiment directed toward developing a treatment.






36. Subcortical forebrain nuclei that coordinate voluntary movements of the limbs and body; connected to the thalamus and to the midbrain.






37. The 'between brain' that integrates sensory and motor information on its way to the cerebral cortex.






38. Sudden appearance of neurological symptom as a result of severe interruption of blood flow.






39. A groove in brain matter - usually a groove found in the neocortex or cerebellum.






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






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






42. 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.






43. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. Conducting away from the central nervous system structure.






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