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Behavioral Neuroscience
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1. Sudden appearance of neurological symptom as a result of severe interruption of blood flow.
Mentalism
Stroke
Forebrain
Temporal Lobe
2. Conducting away from the central nervous system structure.
Radiator Hypothesis
Dermatome
Spinal Cord
Efferent
3. Degenerative brain disorder related to aging that first appears as progressive memory loss and later develops into generalized dementia.
4. The nervous system's potential for physical or chemical change that enhances its adaptability to environmental change and its ability to compensate for injury.
Segmentation
Mind-Body Problem
Clinical Trial
Neuroplasticity
5. Proposed nonmaterial entity responsible for intelligence - attention - awareness and consciousness.
Species-typical behavior
Stroke
Mind
Chordate
6. 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.
7. Areas of the nervous system rich in fat-sheathed neural axons that form the connections between brain cells.
Hemisphere
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
White Matter
8. One of four cavities in the brain that contain cerebrospinal fluid that cushions the brain and may play a role in maintaining brain metabolism.
Cerebral Cortex
Mind-Body Problem
Gray Matter
Ventricle
9. Hypothesis that the movements that we make and those that we perceive in others are essential features of our conscious behavior.
Brainstem
Ventricle
Embodied Consciousness
Corpus Callosum
10. A groove in brain matter - usually a groove found in the neocortex or cerebellum.
Sulcus (Sulci)
Tourettes's Syndrome
Segmentation
Materialism
11. 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.
Materialism
Tegmentum
Cerebellum
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
12. Wound to the brain that results from a blow to the head..
Chordate
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Segmentation
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
13. Approved experiment directed toward developing a treatment.
Common Ancestor
Clinical Trial
Afferent
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
14. 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.
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
Efferent
Parietal Lobe
Cranial nerve
15. Diencephalon structure through which information from all sensory systems is integrated into the appropriate region of the neocortex.
Efferent
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
White Matter
Thalamus
16. Fiber system connecting the two cerebral hemispheres to provide a route for direct communication between them.
Temporal Lobe
Law of Bell and Magendie
Corpus Callosum
Basal ganglia
17. 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.
Cladogram
Cranial nerve
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Midbrain
18. Evolutionarily the oldest part of the brain; contains pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum structures that coordinate and control most voluntary and involuntary movements.
Orienting movement
Basal ganglia
Hindbrain
Tectum
19. Animal that has both a brain and a spinal cord.
Chordate
Inhibition
Excitation
Alzheimer's Disease
20. Group of organisms that can interbreed.
Species
Tegmentum
Nerve Set
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
21. Conducting toward a central nervous system structure.
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Cladogram
Afferent
Midbrain
22. Decrease in the activity of a neuron or brain area.
Radiator Hypothesis
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Inhibition
Dualism
23. Synonym for mind - an entity once proposed to be the source of human behavior.
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Psyche
Segmentation
Limbic system
24. Large collection of axons coursing together outside of the central nervous system.
Hindbrain
Nerve
Neoteny
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
25. Body plan in which organs or parts present on both sides of the body are mirror images in appearance.
Bilateral Symmetry
Nerve Set
Common Ancestor
Parasympathetic Division
26. Philosophical position that holds that behavior can be explained as a function of the nervous system without explanatory recourse to the mind.
Materialism
Neuron
Radiator Hypothesis
Brainstem
27. Learned behaviors that are passed on from on generation to the next through teaching and experience.
Gray Matter
Culture
Inhibition
Dualism
28. Three layers of protective tissue - dura mater - arachnoid - and pia mater - that encase the brain and spinal cord.
Forebrain
Meninges
Gray Matter
Materialism
29. 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
Hominid
Gray Matter
Gyrus (Gyri)
30. Subcortical forebrain nuclei that coordinate voluntary movements of the limbs and body; connected to the thalamus and to the midbrain.
Hemispherectomy
Basal ganglia
Parkinson's Disease
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
31. Collection of nerve cells that function somewhat like a brain.
Radiator Hypothesis
Culture
Mind-Body Problem
Ganglia
32. Of the mind; an explanation of behavior as a function of the nonmaterial mind.
Mentalism
Mind-Body Problem
Cerebellum
Hominid
33. Surgical removal of a cerebral hemisphere.
Ganglia
Hemispherectomy
Tectum
Mind
34. 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.
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
Cerebral Cortex
Materialism
Gray Matter
35. Diencephalon structure through which information from all sensory systems is integrated and projected into the appropriate region of the neocortex.
Chordate
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Hypothalamus
36. 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.
Nerve Set
Natural Selection
Stroke
Hypothalamus
37. 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.
Mind
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Forebrain
Neoteny
38. 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.
Forebrain
Bilateral Symmetry
Tourettes's Syndrome
Mind-Body Problem
39. 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.
Dermatome
Sulcus (Sulci)
Sympathetic Division
Common Ancestor
40. A specialized 'nerve cell' engaged in information processing.
Hindbrain
Tegmentum
Tectum
Neuron
41. Increase in the activity of a neuron or brain area.
Psyche
Excitation
Natural Selection
Neoteny
42. Midbrain area in which nuclei and fiber pathways are mixed - producing a netlike appearance; associated with sleep-wake behavior and behavioral arousal.
Hypothalamus
Reticular Formation
Radiator Hypothesis
Tegmentum
43. Literally - half a sphere - referring to one side of the cerebral cortex or of one side of the cerebellum.
Brainstem
Culture
Parasympathetic Division
Hemisphere
44. The bones - or segments - that form the spinal column.
Cerebrum
Vertebrae
Mind
Neuron
45. Behavior that is characteristic of all members of a species.
Species-typical behavior
Inhibition
Neuron
Cerebrum
46. The brain and spinal cord that together mediate behavior.
Materialism
Nerve
Species-typical behavior
Central Nervous System (CNS)
47. A group of cells forming a cluster that can be identified with special stains to form a functional grouping.
Clinical Trial
Nucleus (Nuclei)
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
Law of Bell and Magendie
48. One of a set of 12 nerve pairs that control sensory and motor functions of the head - neck - and internal organs.
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Hemispherectomy
Cranial nerve
Neuron
49. Neurosurgery in which electrodes implanted in the brain stimulate a targeted area with a low-voltage electrical current to facilitate behavior.
Limbic system
Neuroplasticity
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Gyrus (Gyri)
50. 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.
Neuroplasticity
Alzheimer's Disease
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Vertebrae