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Behavioral Neuroscience

Subject : health-sciences
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1. 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.






2. 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.






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






4. 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.






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






6. 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.






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






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






9. 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.






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






11. Floor (area below the ventricle) of the midbrain; a collection of nuclei with movement-related - species-specific - and pain-perception functions.






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






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






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






15. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. Evolutionarily the newest part of the brain; coordinates advanced cognitive functions such as thinking - planning - and language; contains the limbic system - basal ganglia - and the neocortex.






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






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






25. 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.






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






27. Group of organisms that can interbreed.






28. Approved experiment directed toward developing a treatment.






29. 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.






30. Three layers of protective tissue - dura mater - arachnoid - and pia mater - that encase the brain and spinal cord.






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






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






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






34. Body plan in which organs or parts present on both sides of the body are mirror images in appearance.






35. 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.






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






37. Decrease in the activity of a neuron or brain area.






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






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






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






45. 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






46. 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.






47. Conducting away from the central nervous system structure.






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






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






50. Part of the PNS that regulates the functioning of internal organs and glands.