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Behavioral Neuroscience

Subject : health-sciences
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1. The brain and spinal cord that together mediate behavior.






2. Movement related to sensory inputs - such as turning the head to see the source of a sound.






3. 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.






4. 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






5. Neurosurgery in which electrodes implanted in the brain stimulate a targeted area with a low-voltage electrical current to facilitate behavior.






6. A specialized 'nerve cell' engaged in information processing.






7. Increase in the activity of a neuron or brain area.






8. One of a set of 12 nerve pairs that control sensory and motor functions of the head - neck - and internal organs.






9. Areas of the nervous system rich in fat-sheathed neural axons that form the connections between brain cells.






10. The general principle that sensory fibers are located dorsally and motors fibers are located ventrally.






11. Learned behaviors that are passed on from on generation to the next through teaching and experience.






12. 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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13. The bones - or segments - that form the spinal column.






14. 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.






15. Literally - half a sphere - referring to one side of the cerebral cortex or of one side of the cerebellum.






16. Synonym for mind - an entity once proposed to be the source of human behavior.






17. Condition in which a person can display some rudimentary behaviors - such as smiling - or utter a few words but is otherwise not conscious.






18. Floor (area below the ventricle) of the midbrain; a collection of nuclei with movement-related - species-specific - and pain-perception functions.






19. 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.






20. The nervous system's potential for physical or chemical change that enhances its adaptability to environmental change and its ability to compensate for injury.






21. Condition in which a person is alive but unable to communicate or to function independently at even the most basic level.






22. 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.






23. 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.






24. Three layers of protective tissue - dura mater - arachnoid - and pia mater - that encase the brain and spinal cord.






25. Sudden appearance of neurological symptom as a result of severe interruption of blood flow.






26. Newest - outer layer (new bark) of the forebrain and composed of about six layers of gray matter that creates or reality.






27. Fiber system connecting the two cerebral hemispheres to provide a route for direct communication between them.






28. Quandary of explaining a nonmaterial mind in command of a material body.






29. Group of organisms that can interbreed.






30. 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.






31. Phylogenetic tree that branches repeatedly - suggesting a taxonomy of organisms based on the time sequence in which evolutionary branches arise.






32. Approved experiment directed toward developing a treatment.






33. 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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34. Large collection of axons coursing together outside of the central nervous system.






35. Of the mind; an explanation of behavior as a function of the nonmaterial mind.






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. Part of the PNS that regulates the functioning of internal organs and glands.






39. Conducting toward a central nervous system structure.






40. Philosophical position that holds that behavior can be explained as a function of the nervous system without explanatory recourse to the mind.






41. A group of cells forming a cluster that can be identified with special stains to form a functional grouping.






42. A groove in brain matter - usually a groove found in the neocortex or cerebellum.






43. Area of the skin supplied with afferent nerve fibers by a single spinal-cord dorsal root.






44. Body plan in which organs or parts present on both sides of the body are mirror images in appearance.






45. Central part of the brain that contains neural circuits for hearing and seeing as well as orienting movements.






46. The 'between brain' that integrates sensory and motor information on its way to the cerebral cortex.






47. Decrease in the activity of a neuron or brain area.






48. 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.






49. 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.






50. 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.