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Behavioral Neuroscience
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1. Idea that selection for improved brain cooling through increased blood circulation in the brains of early hominids enabled the brain to grow larger.
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
Cladogram
Afferent
Radiator Hypothesis
2. Central part of the brain that contains neural circuits for hearing and seeing as well as orienting movements.
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Midbrain
Stroke
Sympathetic Division
3. Increase in the activity of a neuron or brain area.
Natural Selection
Tourettes's Syndrome
Excitation
Hindbrain
4. Evolutionarily the oldest part of the brain; contains pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum structures that coordinate and control most voluntary and involuntary movements.
Stroke
Hindbrain
Neuron
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
5. A small protrusion or bump formed by the folding of the cerebral cortex.
Gray Matter
Neuroplasticity
Gyrus (Gyri)
Forebrain
6. 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.
Parkinson's Disease
Neoteny
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Thalamus
7. 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.
Meninges
Bilateral Symmetry
Species-typical behavior
Segmentation
8. Phylogenetic tree that branches repeatedly - suggesting a taxonomy of organisms based on the time sequence in which evolutionary branches arise.
Tectum
Law of Bell and Magendie
Frontal Lobe
Cladogram
9. Group of organisms that can interbreed.
Efferent
Species
Inhibition
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
10. 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.
11. Floor (area below the ventricle) of the midbrain; a collection of nuclei with movement-related - species-specific - and pain-perception functions.
Tegmentum
Cerebral Cortex
Gyrus (Gyri)
Species
12. Body plan in which organs or parts present on both sides of the body are mirror images in appearance.
Parkinson's Disease
Bilateral Symmetry
Neoteny
Basal ganglia
13. The nervous system's potential for physical or chemical change that enhances its adaptability to environmental change and its ability to compensate for injury.
Neuroplasticity
Occipital Lobe
Forebrain
Nerve Set
14. 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
Cytoarchitectonic map
Limbic system
Tegmentum
Encephalization quotient
15. Conducting toward a central nervous system structure.
Afferent
Parkinson's Disease
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Clinical Trial
16. Diencephalon structure through which information from all sensory systems is integrated into the appropriate region of the neocortex.
Meninges
Thalamus
Limbic system
Common Ancestor
17. Movement related to sensory inputs - such as turning the head to see the source of a sound.
Frontal Lobe
Orienting movement
Nerve
Hindbrain
18. Literally - half a sphere - referring to one side of the cerebral cortex or of one side of the cerebellum.
Species
Ganglia
Chordate
Hemisphere
19. Hypothesis that the movements that we make and those that we perceive in others are essential features of our conscious behavior.
Neuron
Afferent
Embodied Consciousness
Cladogram
20. Conducting away from the central nervous system structure.
Brainstem
Segmentation
Materialism
Efferent
21. 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.
Parietal Lobe
Radiator Hypothesis
Natural Selection
Nerve Set
22. Large collection of axons coursing together outside of the central nervous system.
Thalamus
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Nerve
Cerebral Cortex
23. Proposed nonmaterial entity responsible for intelligence - attention - awareness and consciousness.
Ganglia
Cerebrum
Orienting movement
Mind
24. The general principle that sensory fibers are located dorsally and motors fibers are located ventrally.
Cladogram
Law of Bell and Magendie
Tourettes's Syndrome
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
25. Approved experiment directed toward developing a treatment.
Alzheimer's Disease
Parkinson's Disease
Clinical Trial
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
26. Cerebral cortex where visual processing begins - lying at the back of the brain ad beneath the occipital bone.
Neoteny
Mind
Occipital Lobe
Nerve
27. A groove in brain matter - usually a groove found in the neocortex or cerebellum.
Corpus Callosum
Hemisphere
Mind-Body Problem
Sulcus (Sulci)
28. Central structures of the brain - including the hindbrain - midbrain - thalamus - and hypothalamus - responsible for most unconscious behavior.
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
Brainstem
Gyrus (Gyri)
Tract
29. Newest - outer layer (new bark) of the forebrain and composed of about six layers of gray matter that creates or reality.
White Matter
Thalamus
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
Tegmentum
30. Major structure of the forebrain - consisting of two virtually identical hemispheres (left and right) and responsible for most conscious behavior.
Midbrain
Cerebrum
Chordate
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
31. A specialized 'nerve cell' engaged in information processing.
Natural Selection
Temporal Lobe
Neuron
Hemisphere
32. Map of the neocortex based on the organization - structure - and distribution of the cells.
Efferent
Neuroplasticity
Gyrus (Gyri)
Cytoarchitectonic map
33. 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.
Nucleus (Nuclei)
Mind-Body Problem
Neoteny
Hypothalamus
34. 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.
Neuroplasticity
Gyrus (Gyri)
Cerebellum
Temporal Lobe
35. 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.
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Sympathetic Division
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Diencephalon
36. Diencephalon structure through which information from all sensory systems is integrated and projected into the appropriate region of the neocortex.
Hemispherectomy
Limbic system
Hypothalamus
Sympathetic Division
37. Quandary of explaining a nonmaterial mind in command of a material body.
Species-typical behavior
Materialism
Dermatome
Mind-Body Problem
38. Neurosurgery in which electrodes implanted in the brain stimulate a targeted area with a low-voltage electrical current to facilitate behavior.
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Stroke
Culture
Dermatome
39. The brain and spinal cord that together mediate behavior.
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Limbic system
Hindbrain
Cranial nerve
40. Midbrain area in which nuclei and fiber pathways are mixed - producing a netlike appearance; associated with sleep-wake behavior and behavioral arousal.
Cranial nerve
Nerve Set
Cerebrum
Reticular Formation
41. The bones - or segments - that form the spinal column.
Hindbrain
Ventricle
Vertebrae
Mentalism
42. 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.
Spinal Cord
Sympathetic Division
Occipital Lobe
Ventricle
43. One of four cavities in the brain that contain cerebrospinal fluid that cushions the brain and may play a role in maintaining brain metabolism.
Ganglia
Spinal Cord
Embodied Consciousness
Ventricle
44. Of the mind; an explanation of behavior as a function of the nonmaterial mind.
Mentalism
Forebrain
Species
Law of Bell and Magendie
45. All the neurons in the body located outside the brain and the spinal cord; provides sensory and motor connections to and from the CNS
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
Inhibition
Gyrus (Gyri)
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
46. Surgical removal of a cerebral hemisphere.
Limbic system
Tectum
Natural Selection
Hemispherectomy
47. 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.
Nerve
Encephalization quotient
Dualism
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
48. Synonym for mind - an entity once proposed to be the source of human behavior.
Vertebrae
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
Frontal Lobe
Psyche
49. Condition in which a person can display some rudimentary behaviors - such as smiling - or utter a few words but is otherwise not conscious.
Efferent
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Cranial nerve
50. 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.
Occipital Lobe
Gray Matter
Tectum
Neuroplasticity