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Behavioral Neuroscience
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1. Literally - half a sphere - referring to one side of the cerebral cortex or of one side of the cerebellum.
Neuron
Hemisphere
Tourettes's Syndrome
Culture
2. 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.
Limbic system
Sympathetic Division
Species-typical behavior
Chordate
3. A specialized 'nerve cell' engaged in information processing.
Neuron
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Cytoarchitectonic map
Gray Matter
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.
Efferent
Hindbrain
Hominid
Stroke
5. Part of the PNS that regulates the functioning of internal organs and glands.
Gray Matter
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Clinical Trial
Natural Selection
6. One of a set of 12 nerve pairs that control sensory and motor functions of the head - neck - and internal organs.
Cranial nerve
Gray Matter
Neuroplasticity
Reticular Formation
7. 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.
Cerebellum
Psyche
Parietal Lobe
Parasympathetic Division
8. Floor (area below the ventricle) of the midbrain; a collection of nuclei with movement-related - species-specific - and pain-perception functions.
Encephalization quotient
Cranial nerve
Cladogram
Tegmentum
9. 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.
Mind-Body Problem
Parietal Lobe
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
Gray Matter
10. Collection of nerve cells that function somewhat like a brain.
Psyche
Ganglia
Culture
White Matter
11. Increase in the activity of a neuron or brain area.
Forebrain
Limbic system
Excitation
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
12. 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.
Segmentation
Tegmentum
Orienting movement
Tectum
13. The 'between brain' that integrates sensory and motor information on its way to the cerebral cortex.
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Limbic system
Frontal Lobe
Diencephalon
14. Central structures of the brain - including the hindbrain - midbrain - thalamus - and hypothalamus - responsible for most unconscious behavior.
Ventricle
Tegmentum
Brainstem
Nerve Set
15. Group of organisms that can interbreed.
Orienting movement
Tectum
Species
Tegmentum
16. Central part of the brain that contains neural circuits for hearing and seeing as well as orienting movements.
Gray Matter
Gyrus (Gyri)
Midbrain
Mind
17. Animal that has both a brain and a spinal cord.
Chordate
Orienting movement
Ganglia
Mentalism
18. Major structure of the forebrain - consisting of two virtually identical hemispheres (left and right) and responsible for most conscious behavior.
Meninges
Cerebellum
Cerebrum
Tectum
19. 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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20. 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.
Midbrain
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Cerebrum
Gray Matter
21. 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.
Cranial nerve
Frontal Lobe
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Spinal Cord
22. Areas of the nervous system rich in fat-sheathed neural axons that form the connections between brain cells.
Common Ancestor
White Matter
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
Psyche
23. 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.
Cerebral Cortex
Gray Matter
Corpus Callosum
Basal ganglia
24. Area of the skin supplied with afferent nerve fibers by a single spinal-cord dorsal root.
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Dermatome
Frontal Lobe
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
25. Midbrain area in which nuclei and fiber pathways are mixed - producing a netlike appearance; associated with sleep-wake behavior and behavioral arousal.
Tectum
Sulcus (Sulci)
Corpus Callosum
Reticular Formation
26. Learned behaviors that are passed on from on generation to the next through teaching and experience.
Tectum
Alzheimer's Disease
Culture
Neoteny
27. Degenerative brain disorder related to aging that first appears as progressive memory loss and later develops into generalized dementia.
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28. 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.
Mentalism
Thalamus
Natural Selection
Forebrain
29. The bones - or segments - that form the spinal column.
Vertebrae
Embodied Consciousness
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Encephalization quotient
30. Condition in which a person can display some rudimentary behaviors - such as smiling - or utter a few words but is otherwise not conscious.
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
Bilateral Symmetry
31. All the neurons in the body located outside the brain and the spinal cord; provides sensory and motor connections to and from the CNS
Hominid
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
Meninges
32. Conducting away from the central nervous system structure.
Dermatome
Efferent
Spinal Cord
Stroke
33. Large collection of axons coursing together within the central nervous system.
Tract
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Hominid
Hindbrain
34. Surgical removal of a cerebral hemisphere.
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
White Matter
Hemispherectomy
Reticular Formation
35. Sudden appearance of neurological symptom as a result of severe interruption of blood flow.
Ventricle
Nerve
Excitation
Stroke
36. 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
Neoteny
Natural Selection
Cladogram
Limbic system
37. The general principle that sensory fibers are located dorsally and motors fibers are located ventrally.
Law of Bell and Magendie
Temporal Lobe
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
Excitation
38. Outer layer of brain-tissue surface composed of neurons; the human cerebral cortex is heavily folded.
Cerebral Cortex
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
Ventricle
Cerebellum
39. 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.
Neoteny
Dermatome
Ventricle
Afferent
40. Fiber system connecting the two cerebral hemispheres to provide a route for direct communication between them.
Parkinson's Disease
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Corpus Callosum
Bilateral Symmetry
41. One of four cavities in the brain that contain cerebrospinal fluid that cushions the brain and may play a role in maintaining brain metabolism.
Segmentation
Ventricle
Vertebrae
Orienting movement
42. Newest - outer layer (new bark) of the forebrain and composed of about six layers of gray matter that creates or reality.
Psyche
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
Midbrain
Gyrus (Gyri)
43. Philosophical position that holds that behavior can be explained as a function of the nervous system without explanatory recourse to the mind.
Reticular Formation
Materialism
Segmentation
Limbic system
44. A groove in brain matter - usually a groove found in the neocortex or cerebellum.
Spinal Cord
Sulcus (Sulci)
Nerve
Species-typical behavior
45. Three layers of protective tissue - dura mater - arachnoid - and pia mater - that encase the brain and spinal cord.
Corpus Callosum
Excitation
Meninges
Frontal Lobe
46. That holds that both a nonmaterial mind and the material body contribute to behavior.
Ganglia
Dualism
Tract
Cerebellum
47. Map of the neocortex based on the organization - structure - and distribution of the cells.
Frontal Lobe
Ganglia
Sympathetic Division
Cytoarchitectonic map
48. 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.
Dualism
Cerebral Cortex
Nerve Set
Neuron
49. Diencephalon structure through which information from all sensory systems is integrated into the appropriate region of the neocortex.
Hypothalamus
Occipital Lobe
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
Thalamus
50. 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.
Neuron
Neoteny
Cerebellum
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)