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Behavioral Neuroscience
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1. Body plan in which organs or parts present on both sides of the body are mirror images in appearance.
Sympathetic Division
Bilateral Symmetry
Temporal Lobe
Occipital Lobe
2. Large collection of axons coursing together within the central nervous system.
Spinal Cord
Tectum
Gray Matter
Tract
3. Behavior that is characteristic of all members of a species.
Inhibition
Tectum
Species-typical behavior
Neuron
4. 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.
Corpus Callosum
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Bilateral Symmetry
Encephalization quotient
5. Outer layer of brain-tissue surface composed of neurons; the human cerebral cortex is heavily folded.
Vertebrae
Chordate
Nerve Set
Cerebral Cortex
6. A small protrusion or bump formed by the folding of the cerebral cortex.
Excitation
Tract
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Gyrus (Gyri)
7. A groove in brain matter - usually a groove found in the neocortex or cerebellum.
Mind-Body Problem
Sulcus (Sulci)
Neuron
Culture
8. Animal that has both a brain and a spinal cord.
Limbic system
Reticular Formation
Chordate
Tourettes's Syndrome
9. Major structure of the forebrain - consisting of two virtually identical hemispheres (left and right) and responsible for most conscious behavior.
Cerebrum
Diencephalon
Thalamus
Nerve
10. Approved experiment directed toward developing a treatment.
Clinical Trial
Meninges
Cerebellum
Limbic system
11. Newest - outer layer (new bark) of the forebrain and composed of about six layers of gray matter that creates or reality.
Alzheimer's Disease
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
Culture
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
12. Evolutionarily the oldest part of the brain; contains pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum structures that coordinate and control most voluntary and involuntary movements.
Hindbrain
Forebrain
Basal ganglia
Tegmentum
13. Wound to the brain that results from a blow to the head..
Hindbrain
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Parkinson's Disease
Hypothalamus
14. 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.
Alzheimer's Disease
Reticular Formation
Clinical Trial
Neoteny
15. Subcortical forebrain nuclei that coordinate voluntary movements of the limbs and body; connected to the thalamus and to the midbrain.
Basal ganglia
Radiator Hypothesis
Alzheimer's Disease
Cerebellum
16. Central structures of the brain - including the hindbrain - midbrain - thalamus - and hypothalamus - responsible for most unconscious behavior.
Psyche
Mind
Brainstem
Sulcus (Sulci)
17. The bones - or segments - that form the spinal column.
Hypothalamus
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
Meninges
Vertebrae
18. A group of cells forming a cluster that can be identified with special stains to form a functional grouping.
Nucleus (Nuclei)
Stroke
Chordate
Forebrain
19. Cerebral cortex where visual processing begins - lying at the back of the brain ad beneath the occipital bone.
Limbic system
Neuron
Occipital Lobe
Tectum
20. The brain and spinal cord that together mediate behavior.
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Psyche
Cranial nerve
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
21. Fiber system connecting the two cerebral hemispheres to provide a route for direct communication between them.
Nerve
Culture
Corpus Callosum
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
22. Area of the skin supplied with afferent nerve fibers by a single spinal-cord dorsal root.
Species
Thalamus
Midbrain
Dermatome
23. 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.
Frontal Lobe
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
Dualism
24. Decrease in the activity of a neuron or brain area.
Hemisphere
Tegmentum
Cerebral Cortex
Inhibition
25. Part of the PNS that regulates the functioning of internal organs and glands.
Orienting movement
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Brainstem
Ganglia
26. Movement related to sensory inputs - such as turning the head to see the source of a sound.
Parasympathetic Division
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
Orienting movement
Materialism
27. The 'between brain' that integrates sensory and motor information on its way to the cerebral cortex.
Ganglia
Diencephalon
Temporal Lobe
Species
28. 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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29. Large collection of axons coursing together outside of the central nervous system.
Nerve
Frontal Lobe
Ventricle
Parasympathetic Division
30. The nervous system's potential for physical or chemical change that enhances its adaptability to environmental change and its ability to compensate for injury.
Hemisphere
Neuroplasticity
Excitation
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
31. Conducting toward a central nervous system structure.
Afferent
Hindbrain
Tract
Nerve
32. 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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33. Three layers of protective tissue - dura mater - arachnoid - and pia mater - that encase the brain and spinal cord.
Radiator Hypothesis
Meninges
Dualism
Natural Selection
34. 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.
Embodied Consciousness
Spinal Cord
Nerve Set
Tectum
35. 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
Ventricle
Limbic system
Vertebrae
Forebrain
36. That holds that both a nonmaterial mind and the material body contribute to behavior.
Mind
Dualism
Cladogram
Segmentation
37. Floor (area below the ventricle) of the midbrain; a collection of nuclei with movement-related - species-specific - and pain-perception functions.
Mind
Stroke
Thalamus
Tegmentum
38. Of the mind; an explanation of behavior as a function of the nonmaterial mind.
Tegmentum
Tract
Mentalism
Meninges
39. Part of the autonomic nervous system; acts in opposition to the sympathetic division- for example - preparing the body to rest and digest by reversing the alarm response or stimulating digestion.
Nerve
Parasympathetic Division
Common Ancestor
Neuron
40. Synonym for mind - an entity once proposed to be the source of human behavior.
Psyche
Gyrus (Gyri)
Occipital Lobe
Parkinson's Disease
41. Hypothesis that the movements that we make and those that we perceive in others are essential features of our conscious behavior.
Forebrain
Bilateral Symmetry
Embodied Consciousness
Ganglia
42. Map of the neocortex based on the organization - structure - and distribution of the cells.
Embodied Consciousness
Cytoarchitectonic map
Species-typical behavior
Temporal Lobe
43. Increase in the activity of a neuron or brain area.
Excitation
Radiator Hypothesis
Orienting movement
Occipital Lobe
44. Idea that selection for improved brain cooling through increased blood circulation in the brains of early hominids enabled the brain to grow larger.
Species
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
Radiator Hypothesis
Sympathetic Division
45. 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.
Thalamus
Embodied Consciousness
Segmentation
Spinal Cord
46. Collection of nerve cells that function somewhat like a brain.
Efferent
Ganglia
Culture
Spinal Cord
47. 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.
Cerebral Cortex
Temporal Lobe
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Inhibition
48. Quandary of explaining a nonmaterial mind in command of a material body.
Mind-Body Problem
Dualism
Tectum
Vertebrae
49. Midbrain area in which nuclei and fiber pathways are mixed - producing a netlike appearance; associated with sleep-wake behavior and behavioral arousal.
Alzheimer's Disease
Reticular Formation
Cerebrum
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
50. General term referring to primates that walk upright - including all forms of humans - living and extinct.
Hominid
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Forebrain
Central Nervous System (CNS)