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Behavioral Neuroscience
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1. 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.
Sympathetic Division
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
Neoteny
Hemispherectomy
2. Area of the skin supplied with afferent nerve fibers by a single spinal-cord dorsal root.
Dermatome
Afferent
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
3. Body plan in which organs or parts present on both sides of the body are mirror images in appearance.
Alzheimer's Disease
White Matter
Psyche
Bilateral Symmetry
4. 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.
Gray Matter
Tourettes's Syndrome
Cytoarchitectonic map
Basal ganglia
5. Surgical removal of a cerebral hemisphere.
Hemispherectomy
Forebrain
Orienting movement
Chordate
6. The brain and spinal cord that together mediate behavior.
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Law of Bell and Magendie
Tectum
Clinical Trial
7. 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
Cladogram
Embodied Consciousness
Limbic system
Ganglia
8. Learned behaviors that are passed on from on generation to the next through teaching and experience.
Culture
Diencephalon
White Matter
Inhibition
9. Collection of nerve cells that function somewhat like a brain.
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Gray Matter
Hominid
Ganglia
10. Animal that has both a brain and a spinal cord.
Alzheimer's Disease
Chordate
Sympathetic Division
Parasympathetic Division
11. Newest - outer layer (new bark) of the forebrain and composed of about six layers of gray matter that creates or reality.
Hindbrain
Tectum
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
Psyche
12. Forbearer from which two or more lineages or family groups arise and so is ancestral to both groups.
Common Ancestor
Excitation
Parasympathetic Division
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
13. Floor (area below the ventricle) of the midbrain; a collection of nuclei with movement-related - species-specific - and pain-perception functions.
Tegmentum
Nerve Set
Excitation
Alzheimer's Disease
14. Roof (area above the ventricle) of the midbrain; its functions are sensory processing - particular visual and auditory - and the production of orienting movements.
Tectum
Occipital Lobe
Gyrus (Gyri)
Afferent
15. Central part of the brain that contains neural circuits for hearing and seeing as well as orienting movements.
Gray Matter
Midbrain
Mind-Body Problem
Spinal Cord
16. 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.
Occipital Lobe
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Nucleus (Nuclei)
Cerebellum
17. Of the mind; an explanation of behavior as a function of the nonmaterial mind.
Forebrain
Mentalism
Hypothalamus
Parkinson's Disease
18. Approved experiment directed toward developing a treatment.
Clinical Trial
Tract
Afferent
Chordate
19. Part of the PNS that regulates the functioning of internal organs and glands.
Gyrus (Gyri)
Materialism
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Hindbrain
20. 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.
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Frontal Lobe
Orienting movement
Vertebrae
21. 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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22. 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.
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Dualism
Culture
Nerve Set
23. Increase in the activity of a neuron or brain area.
Hypothalamus
Excitation
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Thalamus
24. Movement related to sensory inputs - such as turning the head to see the source of a sound.
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
Parkinson's Disease
Orienting movement
Dualism
25. Map of the neocortex based on the organization - structure - and distribution of the cells.
Cytoarchitectonic map
Common Ancestor
Materialism
Corpus Callosum
26. Group of organisms that can interbreed.
Law of Bell and Magendie
Efferent
Species
Parkinson's Disease
27. 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.
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Radiator Hypothesis
Occipital Lobe
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
28. Large collection of axons coursing together outside of the central nervous system.
Dualism
Nerve
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Cerebellum
29. Areas of the nervous system rich in fat-sheathed neural axons that form the connections between brain cells.
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
Tegmentum
Clinical Trial
White Matter
30. Large collection of axons coursing together within the central nervous system.
Corpus Callosum
Tract
Ganglia
Mind-Body Problem
31. 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
Sulcus (Sulci)
Frontal Lobe
Parkinson's Disease
32. Conducting away from the central nervous system structure.
Efferent
Temporal Lobe
Cerebral Cortex
Mind
33. A groove in brain matter - usually a groove found in the neocortex or cerebellum.
Psyche
Sulcus (Sulci)
Common Ancestor
Dermatome
34. Major structure of the forebrain - consisting of two virtually identical hemispheres (left and right) and responsible for most conscious behavior.
Cerebrum
Alzheimer's Disease
Encephalization quotient
Corpus Callosum
35. 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.
Psyche
Sulcus (Sulci)
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Tract
36. Idea that selection for improved brain cooling through increased blood circulation in the brains of early hominids enabled the brain to grow larger.
Radiator Hypothesis
Hominid
Cerebral Cortex
Cladogram
37. A group of cells forming a cluster that can be identified with special stains to form a functional grouping.
Nucleus (Nuclei)
Cerebrum
Dualism
Cerebral Cortex
38. Proposed nonmaterial entity responsible for intelligence - attention - awareness and consciousness.
Corpus Callosum
Dualism
Neuron
Mind
39. 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.
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
Diencephalon
Excitation
Segmentation
40. 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.
Reticular Formation
Natural Selection
Temporal Lobe
Common Ancestor
41. The bones - or segments - that form the spinal column.
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Vertebrae
Species-typical behavior
Central Nervous System (CNS)
42. Neurosurgery in which electrodes implanted in the brain stimulate a targeted area with a low-voltage electrical current to facilitate behavior.
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Gyrus (Gyri)
Neoteny
43. 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.
Temporal Lobe
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
Cytoarchitectonic map
Parietal Lobe
44. Three layers of protective tissue - dura mater - arachnoid - and pia mater - that encase the brain and spinal cord.
Law of Bell and Magendie
Parkinson's Disease
Meninges
Inhibition
45. Condition in which a person is alive but unable to communicate or to function independently at even the most basic level.
Hemisphere
Species
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
Sympathetic Division
46. Diencephalon structure through which information from all sensory systems is integrated into the appropriate region of the neocortex.
White Matter
Inhibition
Thalamus
Encephalization quotient
47. 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.
Spinal Cord
Meninges
Mind-Body Problem
Cytoarchitectonic map
48. A specialized 'nerve cell' engaged in information processing.
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Species
Neuron
Sulcus (Sulci)
49. Synonym for mind - an entity once proposed to be the source of human behavior.
Mind
Segmentation
Psyche
Tourettes's Syndrome
50. All the neurons in the body located outside the brain and the spinal cord; provides sensory and motor connections to and from the CNS
Spinal Cord
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Natural Selection