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Behavioral Neuroscience

Subject : health-sciences
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1. Sudden appearance of neurological symptom as a result of severe interruption of blood flow.






2. Conducting away from the central nervous system structure.






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.






5. Proposed nonmaterial entity responsible for intelligence - attention - awareness and consciousness.






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.






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.






9. Hypothesis that the movements that we make and those that we perceive in others are essential features of our conscious behavior.






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






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.






12. Wound to the brain that results from a blow to the head..






13. Approved experiment directed toward developing a treatment.






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.






15. Diencephalon structure through which information from all sensory systems is integrated into the appropriate region of the neocortex.






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






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.






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.






19. Animal that has both a brain and a spinal cord.






20. Group of organisms that can interbreed.






21. Conducting toward a central nervous system structure.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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.






30. Subcortical forebrain nuclei that coordinate voluntary movements of the limbs and body; connected to the thalamus and to the midbrain.






31. Collection of nerve cells that function somewhat like a brain.






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






33. Surgical removal of a cerebral hemisphere.






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.






35. Diencephalon structure through which information from all sensory systems is integrated and projected into the appropriate region of the neocortex.






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.






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.






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.






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.






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






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






42. Midbrain area in which nuclei and fiber pathways are mixed - producing a netlike appearance; associated with sleep-wake behavior and behavioral arousal.






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






44. The bones - or segments - that form the spinal column.






45. Behavior that is characteristic of all members of a species.






46. The brain and spinal cord that together mediate behavior.






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






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






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






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.