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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.
Hominid
Spinal Cord
Brainstem
Diencephalon
2. The 'between brain' that integrates sensory and motor information on its way to the cerebral cortex.
Hypothalamus
Neuron
Parasympathetic Division
Diencephalon
3. Literally - half a sphere - referring to one side of the cerebral cortex or of one side of the cerebellum.
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Sympathetic Division
Hemisphere
Species
4. Midbrain area in which nuclei and fiber pathways are mixed - producing a netlike appearance; associated with sleep-wake behavior and behavioral arousal.
Neoteny
Reticular Formation
Stroke
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
5. Of the mind; an explanation of behavior as a function of the nonmaterial mind.
Sulcus (Sulci)
Corpus Callosum
Mentalism
Nucleus (Nuclei)
6. Behavior that is characteristic of all members of a species.
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Limbic system
Species-typical behavior
Gray Matter
7. Newest - outer layer (new bark) of the forebrain and composed of about six layers of gray matter that creates or reality.
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
Bilateral Symmetry
Reticular Formation
Segmentation
8. Roof (area above the ventricle) of the midbrain; its functions are sensory processing - particular visual and auditory - and the production of orienting movements.
White Matter
Sulcus (Sulci)
Spinal Cord
Tectum
9. Animal that has both a brain and a spinal cord.
Embodied Consciousness
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
White Matter
Chordate
10. Diencephalon structure through which information from all sensory systems is integrated and projected into the appropriate region of the neocortex.
Hypothalamus
Parasympathetic Division
Temporal Lobe
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
11. Body plan in which organs or parts present on both sides of the body are mirror images in appearance.
Bilateral Symmetry
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Embodied Consciousness
Neuron
12. Degenerative brain disorder related to aging that first appears as progressive memory loss and later develops into generalized dementia.
13. 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.
Dermatome
Tract
Encephalization quotient
Vertebrae
14. Philosophical position that holds that behavior can be explained as a function of the nervous system without explanatory recourse to the mind.
Neuron
Materialism
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
Gyrus (Gyri)
15. 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.
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Corpus Callosum
Basal ganglia
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
16. 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.
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Mind-Body Problem
Forebrain
Law of Bell and Magendie
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.
18. 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.
19. Proposed nonmaterial entity responsible for intelligence - attention - awareness and consciousness.
Mind
Efferent
Vertebrae
Sulcus (Sulci)
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
Encephalization quotient
Limbic system
Neoteny
Tegmentum
21. Idea that selection for improved brain cooling through increased blood circulation in the brains of early hominids enabled the brain to grow larger.
Stroke
White Matter
Radiator Hypothesis
Chordate
22. Collection of nerve cells that function somewhat like a brain.
Natural Selection
Cladogram
Excitation
Ganglia
23. Phylogenetic tree that branches repeatedly - suggesting a taxonomy of organisms based on the time sequence in which evolutionary branches arise.
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Species
Afferent
Cladogram
24. Subcortical forebrain nuclei that coordinate voluntary movements of the limbs and body; connected to the thalamus and to the midbrain.
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
Mind
Basal ganglia
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
25. A small protrusion or bump formed by the folding of the cerebral cortex.
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
Psyche
Gyrus (Gyri)
26. Large collection of axons coursing together within the central nervous system.
Tract
Mind-Body Problem
Vertebrae
Thalamus
27. Diencephalon structure through which information from all sensory systems is integrated into the appropriate region of the neocortex.
Cytoarchitectonic map
Hemispherectomy
Corpus Callosum
Thalamus
28. 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.
Cerebral Cortex
Mentalism
Spinal Cord
Neuroplasticity
29. Synonym for mind - an entity once proposed to be the source of human behavior.
Psyche
Vertebrae
Cerebellum
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
30. A group of cells forming a cluster that can be identified with special stains to form a functional grouping.
Nucleus (Nuclei)
Reticular Formation
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
White Matter
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.
Parasympathetic Division
Neuron
Excitation
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
32. A groove in brain matter - usually a groove found in the neocortex or cerebellum.
Species
Basal ganglia
Sulcus (Sulci)
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
33. Outer layer of brain-tissue surface composed of neurons; the human cerebral cortex is heavily folded.
Sulcus (Sulci)
Cladogram
Cerebral Cortex
Clinical Trial
34. Increase in the activity of a neuron or brain area.
Orienting movement
Hemisphere
Nucleus (Nuclei)
Excitation
35. Areas of the nervous system rich in fat-sheathed neural axons that form the connections between brain cells.
Stroke
Alzheimer's Disease
White Matter
Mind
36. One of four cavities in the brain that contain cerebrospinal fluid that cushions the brain and may play a role in maintaining brain metabolism.
Ventricle
Orienting movement
Radiator Hypothesis
Natural Selection
37. The general principle that sensory fibers are located dorsally and motors fibers are located ventrally.
Law of Bell and Magendie
Hominid
Parietal Lobe
Stroke
38. One of a set of 12 nerve pairs that control sensory and motor functions of the head - neck - and internal organs.
Forebrain
Hindbrain
Cranial nerve
Inhibition
39. Group of organisms that can interbreed.
Species
Excitation
Ventricle
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
40. 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.
Neoteny
Frontal Lobe
Nerve
Limbic system
41. Surgical removal of a cerebral hemisphere.
Cranial nerve
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
Tegmentum
Hemispherectomy
42. That holds that both a nonmaterial mind and the material body contribute to behavior.
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
Reticular Formation
Gyrus (Gyri)
Dualism
43. Wound to the brain that results from a blow to the head..
Brainstem
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
White Matter
Cladogram
44. The nervous system's potential for physical or chemical change that enhances its adaptability to environmental change and its ability to compensate for injury.
Law of Bell and Magendie
Neuroplasticity
Dermatome
Brainstem
45. Quandary of explaining a nonmaterial mind in command of a material body.
Meninges
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Nucleus (Nuclei)
Mind-Body Problem
46. Forbearer from which two or more lineages or family groups arise and so is ancestral to both groups.
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
Tegmentum
Common Ancestor
Encephalization quotient
47. 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.
Stroke
Ganglia
Inhibition
Sympathetic Division
48. The brain and spinal cord that together mediate behavior.
Psyche
Forebrain
Hominid
Central Nervous System (CNS)
49. 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.
Stroke
Mind
Occipital Lobe
Nerve Set
50. Neurosurgery in which electrodes implanted in the brain stimulate a targeted area with a low-voltage electrical current to facilitate behavior.
Bilateral Symmetry
Encephalization quotient
Parietal Lobe
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)