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Behavioral Neuroscience

Subject : health-sciences
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1. Three layers of protective tissue - dura mater - arachnoid - and pia mater - that encase the brain and spinal cord.






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






3. The bones - or segments - that form the spinal column.






4. Area of the skin supplied with afferent nerve fibers by a single spinal-cord dorsal root.






5. Conducting away from the central nervous system structure.






6. Literally - half a sphere - referring to one side of the cerebral cortex or of one side of the cerebellum.






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






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






9. Group of organisms that can interbreed.






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






11. The brain and spinal cord that together mediate behavior.






12. 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.






13. 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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14. 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.






15. 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.






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. Surgical removal of a cerebral hemisphere.






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






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






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






22. All the neurons in the body located outside the brain and the spinal cord; provides sensory and motor connections to and from the CNS






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






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






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






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






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






28. Degenerative brain disorder related to aging that first appears as progressive memory loss and later develops into generalized dementia.

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29. Conducting toward a central nervous system structure.






30. Increase in the activity of a neuron or brain area.






31. Idea that selection for improved brain cooling through increased blood circulation in the brains of early hominids enabled the brain to grow larger.






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






33. 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.






34. Map of the neocortex based on the organization - structure - and distribution of the cells.






35. 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.






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






37. Approved experiment directed toward developing a treatment.






38. The 'between brain' that integrates sensory and motor information on its way to the cerebral cortex.






39. Wound to the brain that results from a blow to the head..






40. Major structure of the forebrain - consisting of two virtually identical hemispheres (left and right) and responsible for most conscious behavior.






41. Quandary of explaining a nonmaterial mind in command of a material body.






42. A specialized 'nerve cell' engaged in information processing.






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






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






45. Movement related to sensory inputs - such as turning the head to see the source of a sound.






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






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






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






49. 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.






50. 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.