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Behavioral Neuroscience

Subject : health-sciences
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1. Degenerative brain disorder related to aging that first appears as progressive memory loss and later develops into generalized dementia.

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2. Large collection of axons coursing together outside of the central nervous system.






3. General term referring to primates that walk upright - including all forms of humans - living and extinct.






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






5. 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.






6. Central structures of the brain - including the hindbrain - midbrain - thalamus - and hypothalamus - responsible for most unconscious behavior.






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






8. 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.






9. 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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10. Behavior that is characteristic of all members of a species.






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






12. 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.






13. Midbrain area in which nuclei and fiber pathways are mixed - producing a netlike appearance; associated with sleep-wake behavior and behavioral arousal.






14. 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.






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






16. 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.






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






18. 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.






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






20. 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






21. Conducting toward a central nervous system structure.






22. Hypothesis that the movements that we make and those that we perceive in others are essential features of our conscious behavior.






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






24. The general principle that sensory fibers are located dorsally and motors fibers are located ventrally.






25. 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.






26. Condition in which a person is alive but unable to communicate or to function independently at even the most basic level.






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






28. Conducting away from the central nervous system structure.






29. 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.






30. A groove in brain matter - usually a groove found in the neocortex or cerebellum.






31. 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.






32. Surgical removal of a cerebral hemisphere.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. Sudden appearance of neurological symptom as a result of severe interruption of blood flow.






43. Large collection of axons coursing together within the central nervous system.






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






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






46. Approved experiment directed toward developing a treatment.






47. Evolutionarily the oldest part of the brain; contains pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum structures that coordinate and control most voluntary and involuntary movements.






48. 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.






49. Fiber system connecting the two cerebral hemispheres to provide a route for direct communication between them.






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