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Behavioral Neuroscience
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1. General term referring to primates that walk upright - including all forms of humans - living and extinct.
Cranial nerve
Hominid
Law of Bell and Magendie
Ventricle
2. 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.
Brainstem
Gray Matter
Parietal Lobe
Efferent
3. Fiber system connecting the two cerebral hemispheres to provide a route for direct communication between them.
Sulcus (Sulci)
Segmentation
Corpus Callosum
Neoteny
4. A groove in brain matter - usually a groove found in the neocortex or cerebellum.
Tract
Culture
Sulcus (Sulci)
Diencephalon
5. Literally - half a sphere - referring to one side of the cerebral cortex or of one side of the cerebellum.
Orienting movement
Hemisphere
Alzheimer's Disease
Ventricle
6. Evolutionarily the oldest part of the brain; contains pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum structures that coordinate and control most voluntary and involuntary movements.
Hindbrain
Sulcus (Sulci)
Efferent
Midbrain
7. Neurosurgery in which electrodes implanted in the brain stimulate a targeted area with a low-voltage electrical current to facilitate behavior.
Species
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Mind-Body Problem
Nucleus (Nuclei)
8. The brain and spinal cord that together mediate behavior.
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Frontal Lobe
Meninges
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
9. Hypothesis that the movements that we make and those that we perceive in others are essential features of our conscious behavior.
Hindbrain
Species-typical behavior
Embodied Consciousness
Species
10. Collection of nerve cells that function somewhat like a brain.
Species
Alzheimer's Disease
Ganglia
Cerebellum
11. 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.
Occipital Lobe
Nerve Set
Parkinson's Disease
Frontal Lobe
12. Synonym for mind - an entity once proposed to be the source of human behavior.
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Midbrain
Psyche
Limbic system
13. Of the mind; an explanation of behavior as a function of the nonmaterial mind.
Mind
Mentalism
Hemispherectomy
White Matter
14. Large collection of axons coursing together within the central nervous system.
Brainstem
Spinal Cord
Cranial nerve
Tract
15. Subcortical forebrain nuclei that coordinate voluntary movements of the limbs and body; connected to the thalamus and to the midbrain.
Mind-Body Problem
Basal ganglia
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
Corpus Callosum
16. 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.
Common Ancestor
Efferent
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
Forebrain
17. Learned behaviors that are passed on from on generation to the next through teaching and experience.
Gray Matter
Afferent
Culture
Midbrain
18. Central structures of the brain - including the hindbrain - midbrain - thalamus - and hypothalamus - responsible for most unconscious behavior.
Neoteny
Brainstem
Cranial nerve
Segmentation
19. Conducting toward a central nervous system structure.
Vertebrae
Corpus Callosum
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Afferent
20. Major structure of the forebrain - consisting of two virtually identical hemispheres (left and right) and responsible for most conscious behavior.
Cerebrum
Temporal Lobe
Segmentation
Tectum
21. 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.
Parasympathetic Division
Limbic system
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
Dermatome
22. Areas of the nervous system rich in fat-sheathed neural axons that form the connections between brain cells.
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Spinal Cord
Alzheimer's Disease
White Matter
23. Body plan in which organs or parts present on both sides of the body are mirror images in appearance.
Bilateral Symmetry
Basal ganglia
Nerve Set
Corpus Callosum
24. Map of the neocortex based on the organization - structure - and distribution of the cells.
Cytoarchitectonic map
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Limbic system
Segmentation
25. Proposed nonmaterial entity responsible for intelligence - attention - awareness and consciousness.
Mind
Mind-Body Problem
Gyrus (Gyri)
White Matter
26. Group of organisms that can interbreed.
Species
Parasympathetic Division
Hemisphere
Natural Selection
27. 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.
Nerve Set
Diencephalon
Afferent
Psyche
28. Cerebral cortex where visual processing begins - lying at the back of the brain ad beneath the occipital bone.
Occipital Lobe
Species-typical behavior
Forebrain
Efferent
29. 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.
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Spinal Cord
Corpus Callosum
Ganglia
30. 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)
Materialism
Clinical Trial
Common Ancestor
31. One of four cavities in the brain that contain cerebrospinal fluid that cushions the brain and may play a role in maintaining brain metabolism.
Reticular Formation
Law of Bell and Magendie
Mind-Body Problem
Ventricle
32. 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
Dermatome
Limbic system
Law of Bell and Magendie
Occipital Lobe
33. 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.
White Matter
Tract
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
Segmentation
34. 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.
Encephalization quotient
Gray Matter
Segmentation
Hindbrain
35. Central part of the brain that contains neural circuits for hearing and seeing as well as orienting movements.
Brainstem
Bilateral Symmetry
Midbrain
Materialism
36. Conducting away from the central nervous system structure.
Gyrus (Gyri)
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
Efferent
Parasympathetic Division
37. Behavior that is characteristic of all members of a species.
Thalamus
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
Hemispherectomy
Species-typical behavior
38. Animal that has both a brain and a spinal cord.
Tourettes's Syndrome
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Chordate
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
39. 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.
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
Inhibition
Reticular Formation
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
40. All the neurons in the body located outside the brain and the spinal cord; provides sensory and motor connections to and from the CNS
Cerebellum
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
Radiator Hypothesis
Natural Selection
41. The general principle that sensory fibers are located dorsally and motors fibers are located ventrally.
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Midbrain
White Matter
Law of Bell and Magendie
42. Floor (area below the ventricle) of the midbrain; a collection of nuclei with movement-related - species-specific - and pain-perception functions.
Tegmentum
Nerve
Corpus Callosum
Cytoarchitectonic map
43. 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.
Cladogram
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Parietal Lobe
Cranial nerve
44. Condition in which a person can display some rudimentary behaviors - such as smiling - or utter a few words but is otherwise not conscious.
Clinical Trial
Basal ganglia
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
Encephalization quotient
45. Part of the PNS that regulates the functioning of internal organs and glands.
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Afferent
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Occipital Lobe
46. Increase in the activity of a neuron or brain area.
Excitation
Temporal Lobe
Neuron
Hindbrain
47. 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
Sympathetic Division
Occipital Lobe
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
48. Forbearer from which two or more lineages or family groups arise and so is ancestral to both groups.
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Tract
Common Ancestor
Ventricle
49. Three layers of protective tissue - dura mater - arachnoid - and pia mater - that encase the brain and spinal cord.
Forebrain
Temporal Lobe
Meninges
Parasympathetic Division
50. Large collection of axons coursing together outside of the central nervous system.
Mentalism
Species-typical behavior
Nerve
Parasympathetic Division