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Behavioral Neuroscience
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1. Decrease in the activity of a neuron or brain area.
Inhibition
Neuroplasticity
Neoteny
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
2. The bones - or segments - that form the spinal column.
Gray Matter
Vertebrae
Encephalization quotient
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
3. Approved experiment directed toward developing a treatment.
Hypothalamus
Frontal Lobe
Corpus Callosum
Clinical Trial
4. 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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5. Subcortical forebrain nuclei that coordinate voluntary movements of the limbs and body; connected to the thalamus and to the midbrain.
Basal ganglia
Tectum
Sympathetic Division
Nucleus (Nuclei)
6. Three layers of protective tissue - dura mater - arachnoid - and pia mater - that encase the brain and spinal cord.
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Ganglia
Meninges
Tegmentum
7. Quandary of explaining a nonmaterial mind in command of a material body.
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
Corpus Callosum
Alzheimer's Disease
Mind-Body Problem
8. Large collection of axons coursing together outside of the central nervous system.
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Vertebrae
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Nerve
9. Learned behaviors that are passed on from on generation to the next through teaching and experience.
Gyrus (Gyri)
Sulcus (Sulci)
Clinical Trial
Culture
10. Philosophical position that holds that behavior can be explained as a function of the nervous system without explanatory recourse to the mind.
Tectum
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Parietal Lobe
Materialism
11. Sudden appearance of neurological symptom as a result of severe interruption of blood flow.
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Alzheimer's Disease
Culture
Stroke
12. Fiber system connecting the two cerebral hemispheres to provide a route for direct communication between them.
Orienting movement
Chordate
Dualism
Corpus Callosum
13. The nervous system's potential for physical or chemical change that enhances its adaptability to environmental change and its ability to compensate for injury.
Tegmentum
Neuroplasticity
Spinal Cord
Law of Bell and Magendie
14. 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.
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Occipital Lobe
Ganglia
15. Group of organisms that can interbreed.
Species
Vertebrae
Meninges
Common Ancestor
16. 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
Limbic system
Ventricle
Chordate
Mentalism
17. A groove in brain matter - usually a groove found in the neocortex or cerebellum.
Sulcus (Sulci)
Corpus Callosum
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Hypothalamus
18. Central part of the brain that contains neural circuits for hearing and seeing as well as orienting movements.
Forebrain
Hemisphere
Midbrain
Law of Bell and Magendie
19. A small protrusion or bump formed by the folding of the cerebral cortex.
Nucleus (Nuclei)
Cerebral Cortex
Gyrus (Gyri)
Hominid
20. Proposed nonmaterial entity responsible for intelligence - attention - awareness and consciousness.
Mind
Tourettes's Syndrome
Natural Selection
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
21. 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.
Parietal Lobe
Species-typical behavior
Parkinson's Disease
Encephalization quotient
22. Synonym for mind - an entity once proposed to be the source of human behavior.
Dualism
Neuroplasticity
Psyche
Central Nervous System (CNS)
23. Body plan in which organs or parts present on both sides of the body are mirror images in appearance.
White Matter
Bilateral Symmetry
Efferent
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
24. Major structure of the forebrain - consisting of two virtually identical hemispheres (left and right) and responsible for most conscious behavior.
White Matter
Limbic system
Cytoarchitectonic map
Cerebrum
25. Diencephalon structure through which information from all sensory systems is integrated and projected into the appropriate region of the neocortex.
Tourettes's Syndrome
Chordate
Hypothalamus
Nucleus (Nuclei)
26. Of the mind; an explanation of behavior as a function of the nonmaterial mind.
Excitation
Mentalism
Clinical Trial
Hominid
27. Animal that has both a brain and a spinal cord.
Culture
Chordate
Cytoarchitectonic map
Parietal Lobe
28. 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.
Natural Selection
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Thalamus
Tourettes's Syndrome
29. Wound to the brain that results from a blow to the head..
Diencephalon
Stroke
Dualism
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
30. Central structures of the brain - including the hindbrain - midbrain - thalamus - and hypothalamus - responsible for most unconscious behavior.
Brainstem
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Thalamus
Cerebrum
31. Hypothesis that the movements that we make and those that we perceive in others are essential features of our conscious behavior.
Hypothalamus
Embodied Consciousness
Gyrus (Gyri)
Cytoarchitectonic map
32. Part of the PNS that regulates the functioning of internal organs and glands.
Neuroplasticity
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Parkinson's Disease
33. 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.
Corpus Callosum
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Bilateral Symmetry
Ganglia
34. The general principle that sensory fibers are located dorsally and motors fibers are located ventrally.
Orienting movement
White Matter
Law of Bell and Magendie
Tegmentum
35. Newest - outer layer (new bark) of the forebrain and composed of about six layers of gray matter that creates or reality.
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
Hominid
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
36. Floor (area below the ventricle) of the midbrain; a collection of nuclei with movement-related - species-specific - and pain-perception functions.
Nucleus (Nuclei)
Stroke
Tegmentum
Vertebrae
37. 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.
Forebrain
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Spinal Cord
Chordate
38. Large collection of axons coursing together within the central nervous system.
Corpus Callosum
Afferent
Sympathetic Division
Tract
39. 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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40. Conducting away from the central nervous system structure.
Ventricle
Efferent
Dermatome
Nerve Set
41. Map of the neocortex based on the organization - structure - and distribution of the cells.
Common Ancestor
Cytoarchitectonic map
Parietal Lobe
Dualism
42. A specialized 'nerve cell' engaged in information processing.
Excitation
Natural Selection
Hypothalamus
Neuron
43. Idea that selection for improved brain cooling through increased blood circulation in the brains of early hominids enabled the brain to grow larger.
Brainstem
Species
Radiator Hypothesis
Nerve
44. One of a set of 12 nerve pairs that control sensory and motor functions of the head - neck - and internal organs.
Cranial nerve
Cladogram
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Bilateral Symmetry
45. 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
Hypothalamus
Inhibition
Clinical Trial
46. 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.
Ganglia
Efferent
Parasympathetic Division
Species-typical behavior
47. Neurosurgery in which electrodes implanted in the brain stimulate a targeted area with a low-voltage electrical current to facilitate behavior.
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Cerebellum
Parietal Lobe
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
48. 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)
Common Ancestor
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Mind-Body Problem
49. Increase in the activity of a neuron or brain area.
Frontal Lobe
Bilateral Symmetry
Excitation
Culture
50. Movement related to sensory inputs - such as turning the head to see the source of a sound.
Nerve
Hominid
Orienting movement
Neuron
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