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Behavioral Neuroscience
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1. Midbrain area in which nuclei and fiber pathways are mixed - producing a netlike appearance; associated with sleep-wake behavior and behavioral arousal.
Species-typical behavior
Reticular Formation
Limbic system
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
2. 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.
3. 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.
Cerebellum
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Hominid
Tract
4. 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.
Spinal Cord
Inhibition
Mind
Mind-Body Problem
5. Of the mind; an explanation of behavior as a function of the nonmaterial mind.
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Inhibition
Mentalism
Embodied Consciousness
6. Learned behaviors that are passed on from on generation to the next through teaching and experience.
Cerebrum
Mentalism
Culture
Dermatome
7. Hypothesis that the movements that we make and those that we perceive in others are essential features of our conscious behavior.
Tectum
Embodied Consciousness
Orienting movement
Common Ancestor
8. Central structures of the brain - including the hindbrain - midbrain - thalamus - and hypothalamus - responsible for most unconscious behavior.
Nerve
Brainstem
Diencephalon
Vertebrae
9. Part of the PNS that regulates the functioning of internal organs and glands.
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Radiator Hypothesis
Occipital Lobe
Psyche
10. Evolutionarily the oldest part of the brain; contains pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum structures that coordinate and control most voluntary and involuntary movements.
Species
Embodied Consciousness
Hindbrain
Nucleus (Nuclei)
11. That holds that both a nonmaterial mind and the material body contribute to behavior.
Forebrain
Frontal Lobe
Tegmentum
Dualism
12. A small protrusion or bump formed by the folding of the cerebral cortex.
Gyrus (Gyri)
Ventricle
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Parkinson's Disease
13. 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.
Hemisphere
Temporal Lobe
Segmentation
Cerebral Cortex
14. Animal that has both a brain and a spinal cord.
Brainstem
Materialism
Gray Matter
Chordate
15. Synonym for mind - an entity once proposed to be the source of human behavior.
Stroke
White Matter
Psyche
Midbrain
16. Area of the skin supplied with afferent nerve fibers by a single spinal-cord dorsal root.
Dualism
Law of Bell and Magendie
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
Dermatome
17. 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.
18. The bones - or segments - that form the spinal column.
Sulcus (Sulci)
Hemispherectomy
Vertebrae
Tectum
19. Map of the neocortex based on the organization - structure - and distribution of the cells.
Cytoarchitectonic map
Mentalism
Vertebrae
Law of Bell and Magendie
20. Movement related to sensory inputs - such as turning the head to see the source of a sound.
Orienting movement
Corpus Callosum
Hindbrain
Efferent
21. Diencephalon structure through which information from all sensory systems is integrated into the appropriate region of the neocortex.
Mind
Parasympathetic Division
Thalamus
Frontal Lobe
22. Roof (area above the ventricle) of the midbrain; its functions are sensory processing - particular visual and auditory - and the production of orienting movements.
Tectum
Brainstem
Frontal Lobe
Tegmentum
23. The brain and spinal cord that together mediate behavior.
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Dermatome
Cerebral Cortex
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
24. Areas of the nervous system rich in fat-sheathed neural axons that form the connections between brain cells.
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
White Matter
Encephalization quotient
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
25. The general principle that sensory fibers are located dorsally and motors fibers are located ventrally.
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Law of Bell and Magendie
Orienting movement
Limbic system
26. Outer layer of brain-tissue surface composed of neurons; the human cerebral cortex is heavily folded.
Embodied Consciousness
Parasympathetic Division
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
Cerebral Cortex
27. 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
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
Chordate
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Limbic system
28. 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.
Temporal Lobe
Nerve
Nerve Set
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
29. 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)
Basal ganglia
Gyrus (Gyri)
Neuroplasticity
30. Approved experiment directed toward developing a treatment.
Chordate
Clinical Trial
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Cerebral Cortex
31. Quandary of explaining a nonmaterial mind in command of a material body.
Nerve Set
Mind-Body Problem
Tectum
Basal ganglia
32. Sudden appearance of neurological symptom as a result of severe interruption of blood flow.
Stroke
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Common Ancestor
Cranial nerve
33. All the neurons in the body located outside the brain and the spinal cord; provides sensory and motor connections to and from the CNS
Law of Bell and Magendie
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
Hominid
Basal ganglia
34. Conducting toward a central nervous system structure.
Afferent
Occipital Lobe
Cerebral Cortex
Cerebellum
35. 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.
Clinical Trial
Neoteny
White Matter
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
36. Newest - outer layer (new bark) of the forebrain and composed of about six layers of gray matter that creates or reality.
Hypothalamus
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
Nerve
Chordate
37. Fiber system connecting the two cerebral hemispheres to provide a route for direct communication between them.
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Corpus Callosum
Materialism
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
38. Behavior that is characteristic of all members of a species.
Species-typical behavior
Dualism
Segmentation
Neuron
39. 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.
Radiator Hypothesis
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Nerve Set
Sympathetic Division
40. One of four cavities in the brain that contain cerebrospinal fluid that cushions the brain and may play a role in maintaining brain metabolism.
Species
Ventricle
Forebrain
Hindbrain
41. Decrease in the activity of a neuron or brain area.
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Inhibition
Mentalism
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
42. Large collection of axons coursing together within the central nervous system.
Tract
Species-typical behavior
Occipital Lobe
Common Ancestor
43. General term referring to primates that walk upright - including all forms of humans - living and extinct.
Gray Matter
Hominid
Cerebral Cortex
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
44. Forbearer from which two or more lineages or family groups arise and so is ancestral to both groups.
Cerebrum
Common Ancestor
Vertebrae
Cerebellum
45. 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.
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Afferent
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
Frontal Lobe
46. Diencephalon structure through which information from all sensory systems is integrated and projected into the appropriate region of the neocortex.
Neuroplasticity
Excitation
Sympathetic Division
Hypothalamus
47. Philosophical position that holds that behavior can be explained as a function of the nervous system without explanatory recourse to the mind.
Midbrain
Ventricle
Bilateral Symmetry
Materialism
48. Literally - half a sphere - referring to one side of the cerebral cortex or of one side of the cerebellum.
Mind-Body Problem
Hemisphere
Nerve Set
Sulcus (Sulci)
49. 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)
Encephalization quotient
Gray Matter
Efferent
50. Group of organisms that can interbreed.
Brainstem
Species
Neuroplasticity
Afferent