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Behavioral Neuroscience

Subject : health-sciences
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1. A groove in brain matter - usually a groove found in the neocortex or cerebellum.






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






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






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






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






6. Surgical removal of a cerebral hemisphere.






7. Conducting away from the central nervous system structure.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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.






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






20. 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.






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






22. Approved experiment directed toward developing a treatment.






23. Conducting toward a central nervous system structure.






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






25. 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.






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






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






28. That holds that both a nonmaterial mind and the material body contribute to behavior.






29. 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.






30. 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.






31. 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.






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






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






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






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






36. Degenerative brain disorder related to aging that first appears as progressive memory loss and later develops into generalized dementia.


37. 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.






38. A small protrusion or bump formed by the folding of the cerebral cortex.






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






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.






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






42. All the neurons in the body located outside the brain and the spinal cord; provides sensory and motor connections to and from the CNS






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






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






45. 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.


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






47. 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.






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






49. 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.






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