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Behavioral Neuroscience
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1. The general principle that sensory fibers are located dorsally and motors fibers are located ventrally.
Psyche
Hominid
Neuroplasticity
Law of Bell and Magendie
2. 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.
Reticular Formation
Cerebellum
Tegmentum
Spinal Cord
3. 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.
Cerebellum
Bilateral Symmetry
Thalamus
Alzheimer's Disease
4. Cerebral cortex where visual processing begins - lying at the back of the brain ad beneath the occipital bone.
Occipital Lobe
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Forebrain
Parietal Lobe
5. 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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6. 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.
Temporal Lobe
Mind
Culture
Gray Matter
7. Movement related to sensory inputs - such as turning the head to see the source of a sound.
Orienting movement
Mind-Body Problem
Hypothalamus
Brainstem
8. 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.
Segmentation
Basal ganglia
Frontal Lobe
Species
9. Learned behaviors that are passed on from on generation to the next through teaching and experience.
Bilateral Symmetry
Materialism
Culture
Temporal Lobe
10. 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.
Segmentation
Gray Matter
Dualism
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
11. 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
Tectum
Hominid
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
12. Proposed nonmaterial entity responsible for intelligence - attention - awareness and consciousness.
Mind
Alzheimer's Disease
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Parkinson's Disease
13. 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.
Neuron
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Species
Psyche
14. Floor (area below the ventricle) of the midbrain; a collection of nuclei with movement-related - species-specific - and pain-perception functions.
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Culture
Cerebral Cortex
Tegmentum
15. Newest - outer layer (new bark) of the forebrain and composed of about six layers of gray matter that creates or reality.
Sulcus (Sulci)
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
Law of Bell and Magendie
Gyrus (Gyri)
16. Conducting away from the central nervous system structure.
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
Dualism
Efferent
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
17. 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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18. A groove in brain matter - usually a groove found in the neocortex or cerebellum.
Dualism
Sulcus (Sulci)
Nucleus (Nuclei)
Culture
19. General term referring to primates that walk upright - including all forms of humans - living and extinct.
Hominid
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Tract
Neoteny
20. Diencephalon structure through which information from all sensory systems is integrated into the appropriate region of the neocortex.
Thalamus
Embodied Consciousness
Limbic system
Nerve Set
21. 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.
Reticular Formation
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
Parietal Lobe
Dualism
22. 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.
Sulcus (Sulci)
Chordate
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Cranial nerve
23. Synonym for mind - an entity once proposed to be the source of human behavior.
Sympathetic Division
Cerebellum
Cerebral Cortex
Psyche
24. The nervous system's potential for physical or chemical change that enhances its adaptability to environmental change and its ability to compensate for injury.
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Neuroplasticity
Excitation
Neoteny
25. Evolutionarily the oldest part of the brain; contains pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum structures that coordinate and control most voluntary and involuntary movements.
Clinical Trial
Hindbrain
Tract
Basal ganglia
26. Central part of the brain that contains neural circuits for hearing and seeing as well as orienting movements.
Thalamus
Parasympathetic Division
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
Midbrain
27. That holds that both a nonmaterial mind and the material body contribute to behavior.
Dualism
Encephalization quotient
Nerve
Dermatome
28. Literally - half a sphere - referring to one side of the cerebral cortex or of one side of the cerebellum.
Midbrain
Species-typical behavior
Limbic system
Hemisphere
29. 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.
White Matter
Parasympathetic Division
Nerve Set
Vertebrae
30. Quandary of explaining a nonmaterial mind in command of a material body.
Mind-Body Problem
Spinal Cord
Excitation
Sulcus (Sulci)
31. 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.
Species
Mind-Body Problem
Common Ancestor
Parasympathetic Division
32. Degenerative brain disorder related to aging that first appears as progressive memory loss and later develops into generalized dementia.
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33. Outer layer of brain-tissue surface composed of neurons; the human cerebral cortex is heavily folded.
Cerebral Cortex
Cladogram
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
Nerve Set
34. Subcortical forebrain nuclei that coordinate voluntary movements of the limbs and body; connected to the thalamus and to the midbrain.
Meninges
Materialism
Dualism
Basal ganglia
35. A small protrusion or bump formed by the folding of the cerebral cortex.
White Matter
Gyrus (Gyri)
Meninges
Chordate
36. Surgical removal of a cerebral hemisphere.
Hemispherectomy
Occipital Lobe
Mind
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
37. A specialized 'nerve cell' engaged in information processing.
Forebrain
Cerebral Cortex
Tract
Neuron
38. Conducting toward a central nervous system structure.
Sympathetic Division
Afferent
Tourettes's Syndrome
Frontal Lobe
39. Hypothesis that the movements that we make and those that we perceive in others are essential features of our conscious behavior.
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
Chordate
Embodied Consciousness
Hemispherectomy
40. 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.
Forebrain
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Bilateral Symmetry
Sympathetic Division
41. Large collection of axons coursing together outside of the central nervous system.
Tectum
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Nerve
Psyche
42. Diencephalon structure through which information from all sensory systems is integrated and projected into the appropriate region of the neocortex.
Hypothalamus
Dualism
Brainstem
Cerebral Cortex
43. One of four cavities in the brain that contain cerebrospinal fluid that cushions the brain and may play a role in maintaining brain metabolism.
Tegmentum
Excitation
Ventricle
Bilateral Symmetry
44. Area of the skin supplied with afferent nerve fibers by a single spinal-cord dorsal root.
Orienting movement
Dermatome
Corpus Callosum
Cerebrum
45. Areas of the nervous system rich in fat-sheathed neural axons that form the connections between brain cells.
Bilateral Symmetry
White Matter
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Diencephalon
46. Wound to the brain that results from a blow to the head..
Sulcus (Sulci)
Gyrus (Gyri)
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Brainstem
47. Group of organisms that can interbreed.
Common Ancestor
Species
Limbic system
Hemisphere
48. Phylogenetic tree that branches repeatedly - suggesting a taxonomy of organisms based on the time sequence in which evolutionary branches arise.
Chordate
Hindbrain
Cladogram
Materialism
49. Map of the neocortex based on the organization - structure - and distribution of the cells.
Dermatome
Cytoarchitectonic map
Hindbrain
Parkinson's Disease
50. Collection of nerve cells that function somewhat like a brain.
Ganglia
Hindbrain
Tourettes's Syndrome
Afferent