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Behavioral Neuroscience

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1. 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.






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






3. 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.






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






5. Neurosurgery in which electrodes implanted in the brain stimulate a targeted area with a low-voltage electrical current to facilitate behavior.






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






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






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






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.






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






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






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






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






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






15. 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.






16. 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.






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






18. Behavior that is characteristic of all members of a species.






19. 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.






20. 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.


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






22. Conducting toward a central nervous system structure.






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






24. Conducting away from the central nervous system structure.






25. 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.






26. Areas of the nervous system rich in fat-sheathed neural axons that form the connections between brain cells.






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






28. Surgical removal of a cerebral hemisphere.






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






30. One of a set of 12 nerve pairs that control sensory and motor functions of the head - neck - and internal organs.






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






32. Forbearer from which two or more lineages or family groups arise and so is ancestral to both groups.






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






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






35. 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.






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






37. Approved experiment directed toward developing a treatment.






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






39. 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.






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






41. 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.


42. Of the mind; an explanation of behavior as a function of the nonmaterial mind.






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






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






45. 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.






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






47. 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.






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






49. 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.






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