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Behavioral Neuroscience
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1. Central structures of the brain - including the hindbrain - midbrain - thalamus - and hypothalamus - responsible for most unconscious behavior.
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Brainstem
Psyche
Gray Matter
2. Condition in which a person can display some rudimentary behaviors - such as smiling - or utter a few words but is otherwise not conscious.
Nerve Set
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Thalamus
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
3. One of a set of 12 nerve pairs that control sensory and motor functions of the head - neck - and internal organs.
Corpus Callosum
Psyche
Occipital Lobe
Cranial nerve
4. 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.
White Matter
Temporal Lobe
Mentalism
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
5. Neurosurgery in which electrodes implanted in the brain stimulate a targeted area with a low-voltage electrical current to facilitate behavior.
Nerve Set
Sympathetic Division
Clinical Trial
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
6. 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.
Reticular Formation
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Neoteny
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
7. 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.
Limbic system
Hemispherectomy
Species-typical behavior
Gray Matter
8. Of the mind; an explanation of behavior as a function of the nonmaterial mind.
Cerebellum
Mentalism
Dermatome
Mind-Body Problem
9. Subcortical forebrain nuclei that coordinate voluntary movements of the limbs and body; connected to the thalamus and to the midbrain.
Culture
Midbrain
Hemispherectomy
Basal ganglia
10. Hypothesis that the movements that we make and those that we perceive in others are essential features of our conscious behavior.
Reticular Formation
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Mind
Embodied Consciousness
11. Literally - half a sphere - referring to one side of the cerebral cortex or of one side of the cerebellum.
Hindbrain
Mind-Body Problem
Hemisphere
Basal ganglia
12. Diencephalon structure through which information from all sensory systems is integrated and projected into the appropriate region of the neocortex.
Gyrus (Gyri)
Parasympathetic Division
Temporal Lobe
Hypothalamus
13. 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
Radiator Hypothesis
Hindbrain
Cytoarchitectonic map
14. Body plan in which organs or parts present on both sides of the body are mirror images in appearance.
Ganglia
Midbrain
Bilateral Symmetry
Dermatome
15. 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.
Gray Matter
Meninges
Midbrain
Segmentation
16. Animal that has both a brain and a spinal cord.
Hemisphere
Meninges
Chordate
Temporal Lobe
17. Roof (area above the ventricle) of the midbrain; its functions are sensory processing - particular visual and auditory - and the production of orienting movements.
Tectum
Reticular Formation
Tract
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
18. Area of the skin supplied with afferent nerve fibers by a single spinal-cord dorsal root.
Afferent
Temporal Lobe
Natural Selection
Dermatome
19. 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
Species
Parasympathetic Division
Neuron
20. 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
Neuron
Diencephalon
Limbic system
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
21. Large collection of axons coursing together outside of the central nervous system.
Nerve
Efferent
Inhibition
Afferent
22. Fiber system connecting the two cerebral hemispheres to provide a route for direct communication between them.
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Corpus Callosum
Thalamus
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
23. Behavior that is characteristic of all members of a species.
Species-typical behavior
Encephalization quotient
Species
Embodied Consciousness
24. Conducting toward a central nervous system structure.
Common Ancestor
Radiator Hypothesis
Afferent
Cytoarchitectonic map
25. Learned behaviors that are passed on from on generation to the next through teaching and experience.
Nerve Set
Culture
Forebrain
Clinical Trial
26. Group of organisms that can interbreed.
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
Chordate
Species-typical behavior
Species
27. Forbearer from which two or more lineages or family groups arise and so is ancestral to both groups.
Common Ancestor
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Corpus Callosum
Mentalism
28. Increase in the activity of a neuron or brain area.
Occipital Lobe
Excitation
Law of Bell and Magendie
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
29. 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.
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Neuroplasticity
Neoteny
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
30. Collection of nerve cells that function somewhat like a brain.
Gyrus (Gyri)
Ganglia
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
31. Large collection of axons coursing together within the central nervous system.
Tract
Radiator Hypothesis
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
Ventricle
32. Areas of the nervous system rich in fat-sheathed neural axons that form the connections between brain cells.
White Matter
Diencephalon
Parietal Lobe
Mentalism
33. Surgical removal of a cerebral hemisphere.
Hominid
Hemispherectomy
Excitation
Inhibition
34. 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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35. Floor (area below the ventricle) of the midbrain; a collection of nuclei with movement-related - species-specific - and pain-perception functions.
Tegmentum
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Temporal Lobe
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
36. The bones - or segments - that form the spinal column.
Law of Bell and Magendie
Mind-Body Problem
Vertebrae
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
37. A groove in brain matter - usually a groove found in the neocortex or cerebellum.
Midbrain
Neuroplasticity
Radiator Hypothesis
Sulcus (Sulci)
38. Newest - outer layer (new bark) of the forebrain and composed of about six layers of gray matter that creates or reality.
Species-typical behavior
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
Encephalization quotient
Parasympathetic Division
39. Outer layer of brain-tissue surface composed of neurons; the human cerebral cortex is heavily folded.
White Matter
Cerebral Cortex
Psyche
Gray Matter
40. 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.
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Spinal Cord
Forebrain
Thalamus
41. Cerebral cortex where visual processing begins - lying at the back of the brain ad beneath the occipital bone.
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
Occipital Lobe
White Matter
Limbic system
42. 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.
Radiator Hypothesis
Law of Bell and Magendie
Sympathetic Division
Cerebrum
43. Conducting away from the central nervous system structure.
Ventricle
Afferent
Cytoarchitectonic map
Efferent
44. 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.
Parietal Lobe
Encephalization quotient
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
Thalamus
45. The 'between brain' that integrates sensory and motor information on its way to the cerebral cortex.
Embodied Consciousness
Diencephalon
Temporal Lobe
Basal ganglia
46. Movement related to sensory inputs - such as turning the head to see the source of a sound.
Hominid
Cerebellum
Orienting movement
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
47. A group of cells forming a cluster that can be identified with special stains to form a functional grouping.
Midbrain
Stroke
Mind-Body Problem
Nucleus (Nuclei)
48. Sudden appearance of neurological symptom as a result of severe interruption of blood flow.
Brainstem
Sympathetic Division
Stroke
Orienting movement
49. The general principle that sensory fibers are located dorsally and motors fibers are located ventrally.
Hemisphere
Nucleus (Nuclei)
Natural Selection
Law of Bell and Magendie
50. Synonym for mind - an entity once proposed to be the source of human behavior.
Neuroplasticity
Parasympathetic Division
Meninges
Psyche