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Behavioral Neuroscience

Subject : health-sciences
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1. 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.






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






3. 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.






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






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






6. Group of organisms that can interbreed.






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






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






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






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






11. 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.






12. Central structures of the brain - including the hindbrain - midbrain - thalamus - and hypothalamus - responsible for most unconscious behavior.






13. Map of the neocortex based on the organization - structure - and distribution of the cells.






14. Major structure of the forebrain - consisting of two virtually identical hemispheres (left and right) and responsible for most conscious behavior.






15. Forbearer from which two or more lineages or family groups arise and so is ancestral to both groups.






16. 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.






17. 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.






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






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






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






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






23. 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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24. One of four cavities in the brain that contain cerebrospinal fluid that cushions the brain and may play a role in maintaining brain metabolism.






25. Roof (area above the ventricle) of the midbrain; its functions are sensory processing - particular visual and auditory - and the production of orienting movements.






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






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






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






29. Idea that selection for improved brain cooling through increased blood circulation in the brains of early hominids enabled the brain to grow larger.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. Surgical removal of a cerebral hemisphere.






38. 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.






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






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






41. Outer layer of brain-tissue surface composed of neurons; the human cerebral cortex is heavily folded.






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






43. Conducting toward a central nervous system structure.






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






45. 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.






46. 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.






47. Approved experiment directed toward developing a treatment.






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






49. Cerebral cortex where visual processing begins - lying at the back of the brain ad beneath the occipital bone.






50. 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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