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Behavioral Neuroscience
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1. A specialized 'nerve cell' engaged in information processing.
Nerve Set
Alzheimer's Disease
Neuron
Forebrain
2. 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.
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Natural Selection
Meninges
Vertebrae
3. One of a set of 12 nerve pairs that control sensory and motor functions of the head - neck - and internal organs.
Cranial nerve
Hemisphere
Natural Selection
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
4. Philosophical position that holds that behavior can be explained as a function of the nervous system without explanatory recourse to the mind.
Forebrain
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Neuron
Materialism
5. 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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6. 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.
Species-typical behavior
Encephalization quotient
Cytoarchitectonic map
Ventricle
7. Body plan in which organs or parts present on both sides of the body are mirror images in appearance.
Cytoarchitectonic map
Culture
Bilateral Symmetry
Sympathetic Division
8. Collection of nerve cells that function somewhat like a brain.
Cladogram
Tegmentum
Parasympathetic Division
Ganglia
9. General term referring to primates that walk upright - including all forms of humans - living and extinct.
Cytoarchitectonic map
White Matter
Tract
Hominid
10. Central structures of the brain - including the hindbrain - midbrain - thalamus - and hypothalamus - responsible for most unconscious behavior.
Brainstem
Encephalization quotient
Sympathetic Division
Radiator Hypothesis
11. 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.
Basal ganglia
Spinal Cord
Forebrain
Cladogram
12. The 'between brain' that integrates sensory and motor information on its way to the cerebral cortex.
Temporal Lobe
Frontal Lobe
Diencephalon
Neuroplasticity
13. Idea that selection for improved brain cooling through increased blood circulation in the brains of early hominids enabled the brain to grow larger.
Radiator Hypothesis
Ganglia
White Matter
Orienting movement
14. Degenerative brain disorder related to aging that first appears as progressive memory loss and later develops into generalized dementia.
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15. Map of the neocortex based on the organization - structure - and distribution of the cells.
Thalamus
Cytoarchitectonic map
Mind-Body Problem
Alzheimer's Disease
16. 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.
Nerve Set
Cerebellum
Excitation
Mind-Body Problem
17. Group of organisms that can interbreed.
Stroke
Nerve
Orienting movement
Species
18. Literally - half a sphere - referring to one side of the cerebral cortex or of one side of the cerebellum.
Cerebrum
Embodied Consciousness
Chordate
Hemisphere
19. Diencephalon structure through which information from all sensory systems is integrated into the appropriate region of the neocortex.
Reticular Formation
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
Diencephalon
Thalamus
20. Areas of the nervous system rich in fat-sheathed neural axons that form the connections between brain cells.
Embodied Consciousness
White Matter
Parasympathetic Division
Brainstem
21. Condition in which a person can display some rudimentary behaviors - such as smiling - or utter a few words but is otherwise not conscious.
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
Nucleus (Nuclei)
Stroke
Hindbrain
22. Approved experiment directed toward developing a treatment.
Cranial nerve
Clinical Trial
Segmentation
Orienting movement
23. 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.
Corpus Callosum
Species
Sympathetic Division
Brainstem
24. 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.
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Reticular Formation
Temporal Lobe
Afferent
25. A group of cells forming a cluster that can be identified with special stains to form a functional grouping.
Efferent
Hindbrain
Law of Bell and Magendie
Nucleus (Nuclei)
26. Central part of the brain that contains neural circuits for hearing and seeing as well as orienting movements.
Inhibition
Midbrain
Species-typical behavior
Cerebrum
27. The bones - or segments - that form the spinal column.
Encephalization quotient
Vertebrae
Basal ganglia
Common Ancestor
28. Newest - outer layer (new bark) of the forebrain and composed of about six layers of gray matter that creates or reality.
Cerebellum
Gray Matter
Cerebral Cortex
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
29. A small protrusion or bump formed by the folding of the cerebral cortex.
Cerebrum
Gyrus (Gyri)
Tourettes's Syndrome
Forebrain
30. Quandary of explaining a nonmaterial mind in command of a material body.
Tegmentum
Parasympathetic Division
Hominid
Mind-Body Problem
31. Area of the skin supplied with afferent nerve fibers by a single spinal-cord dorsal root.
Mind
Sympathetic Division
Dermatome
Sulcus (Sulci)
32. Roof (area above the ventricle) of the midbrain; its functions are sensory processing - particular visual and auditory - and the production of orienting movements.
Tectum
White Matter
Hypothalamus
Spinal Cord
33. Learned behaviors that are passed on from on generation to the next through teaching and experience.
Culture
Inhibition
Law of Bell and Magendie
Materialism
34. Proposed nonmaterial entity responsible for intelligence - attention - awareness and consciousness.
Mind
Dualism
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Species-typical behavior
35. Midbrain area in which nuclei and fiber pathways are mixed - producing a netlike appearance; associated with sleep-wake behavior and behavioral arousal.
Nerve
Common Ancestor
Reticular Formation
Species-typical behavior
36. Part of the autonomic nervous system; acts in opposition to the sympathetic division- for example - preparing the body to rest and digest by reversing the alarm response or stimulating digestion.
Hemisphere
Thalamus
Hindbrain
Parasympathetic Division
37. 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.
Cytoarchitectonic map
Cerebellum
Parietal Lobe
Parkinson's Disease
38. 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
Natural Selection
Tract
Bilateral Symmetry
39. Forbearer from which two or more lineages or family groups arise and so is ancestral to both groups.
Dualism
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
Common Ancestor
Meninges
40. Condition in which a person is alive but unable to communicate or to function independently at even the most basic level.
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
Hemispherectomy
Hemisphere
Parietal Lobe
41. 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.
Brainstem
Stroke
Cerebrum
Neoteny
42. 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.
Tract
Frontal Lobe
Excitation
Vertebrae
43. That holds that both a nonmaterial mind and the material body contribute to behavior.
Dualism
Tract
Parkinson's Disease
White Matter
44. 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.
Tegmentum
Natural Selection
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
Tract
45. Evolutionarily the oldest part of the brain; contains pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum structures that coordinate and control most voluntary and involuntary movements.
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Efferent
Hindbrain
Stroke
46. 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.
Meninges
Neuroplasticity
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Vertebrae
47. Conducting away from the central nervous system structure.
Inhibition
Basal ganglia
Meninges
Efferent
48. Decrease in the activity of a neuron or brain area.
Hominid
Limbic system
Inhibition
Diencephalon
49. Fiber system connecting the two cerebral hemispheres to provide a route for direct communication between them.
Mentalism
Corpus Callosum
Stroke
Ganglia
50. 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.
Meninges
Nerve Set
Parasympathetic Division
Nucleus (Nuclei)