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Behavioral Neuroscience
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1. Proposed nonmaterial entity responsible for intelligence - attention - awareness and consciousness.
Ventricle
Law of Bell and Magendie
Mind
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
2. Large collection of axons coursing together within the central nervous system.
Alzheimer's Disease
Parietal Lobe
Tract
Neoteny
3. All the neurons in the body located outside the brain and the spinal cord; provides sensory and motor connections to and from the CNS
Ventricle
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
Gray Matter
Stroke
4. Animal that has both a brain and a spinal cord.
Tegmentum
Chordate
Gray Matter
Basal ganglia
5. A specialized 'nerve cell' engaged in information processing.
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Nerve
Neuron
Ganglia
6. Wound to the brain that results from a blow to the head..
Tegmentum
Cladogram
Bilateral Symmetry
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
7. 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.
Cranial nerve
Gray Matter
Hominid
Hemisphere
8. Philosophical position that holds that behavior can be explained as a function of the nervous system without explanatory recourse to the mind.
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Nucleus (Nuclei)
Materialism
Sulcus (Sulci)
9. 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.
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Segmentation
Excitation
10. Literally - half a sphere - referring to one side of the cerebral cortex or of one side of the cerebellum.
Tourettes's Syndrome
Hemisphere
Clinical Trial
Vertebrae
11. Condition in which a person is alive but unable to communicate or to function independently at even the most basic level.
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
Neoteny
Occipital Lobe
12. One of four cavities in the brain that contain cerebrospinal fluid that cushions the brain and may play a role in maintaining brain metabolism.
Ventricle
Hindbrain
Inhibition
Radiator Hypothesis
13. 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
Segmentation
Parkinson's Disease
Vertebrae
Limbic system
14. 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.
Encephalization quotient
Brainstem
Reticular Formation
Mind-Body Problem
15. Of the mind; an explanation of behavior as a function of the nonmaterial mind.
Inhibition
Dualism
Bilateral Symmetry
Mentalism
16. Outer layer of brain-tissue surface composed of neurons; the human cerebral cortex is heavily folded.
Species-typical behavior
Nerve
Corpus Callosum
Cerebral Cortex
17. Behavior that is characteristic of all members of a species.
Species-typical behavior
Gyrus (Gyri)
Hemisphere
Cerebral Cortex
18. Major structure of the forebrain - consisting of two virtually identical hemispheres (left and right) and responsible for most conscious behavior.
Cerebrum
Orienting movement
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
Cranial nerve
19. Diencephalon structure through which information from all sensory systems is integrated into the appropriate region of the neocortex.
Hindbrain
Bilateral Symmetry
Materialism
Thalamus
20. Group of organisms that can interbreed.
Common Ancestor
Cerebrum
Dermatome
Species
21. Approved experiment directed toward developing a treatment.
Clinical Trial
Vertebrae
Gyrus (Gyri)
Dermatome
22. 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.
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23. Collection of nerve cells that function somewhat like a brain.
Ganglia
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
Tectum
Cytoarchitectonic map
24. Sudden appearance of neurological symptom as a result of severe interruption of blood flow.
Cerebellum
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
Tract
Stroke
25. A group of cells forming a cluster that can be identified with special stains to form a functional grouping.
Dualism
Mentalism
Mind-Body Problem
Nucleus (Nuclei)
26. 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.
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
White Matter
Species-typical behavior
Frontal Lobe
27. Idea that selection for improved brain cooling through increased blood circulation in the brains of early hominids enabled the brain to grow larger.
White Matter
Efferent
Radiator Hypothesis
Clinical Trial
28. Forbearer from which two or more lineages or family groups arise and so is ancestral to both groups.
Common Ancestor
Parasympathetic Division
Reticular Formation
Central Nervous System (CNS)
29. 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
Forebrain
Cerebral Cortex
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
30. Decrease in the activity of a neuron or brain area.
Sympathetic Division
Hindbrain
Inhibition
Brainstem
31. Increase in the activity of a neuron or brain area.
Nerve
Inhibition
Sympathetic Division
Excitation
32. 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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33. Map of the neocortex based on the organization - structure - and distribution of the cells.
Neuron
Cranial nerve
Tourettes's Syndrome
Cytoarchitectonic map
34. Three layers of protective tissue - dura mater - arachnoid - and pia mater - that encase the brain and spinal cord.
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Meninges
Parkinson's Disease
White Matter
35. 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.
Hominid
Spinal Cord
Tourettes's Syndrome
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
36. Condition in which a person can display some rudimentary behaviors - such as smiling - or utter a few words but is otherwise not conscious.
Tectum
Nerve
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
Cranial nerve
37. Midbrain area in which nuclei and fiber pathways are mixed - producing a netlike appearance; associated with sleep-wake behavior and behavioral arousal.
Stroke
Cerebellum
Reticular Formation
Afferent
38. Conducting toward a central nervous system structure.
Basal ganglia
Tectum
Afferent
Inhibition
39. One of a set of 12 nerve pairs that control sensory and motor functions of the head - neck - and internal organs.
Ventricle
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
Cranial nerve
Tourettes's Syndrome
40. Body plan in which organs or parts present on both sides of the body are mirror images in appearance.
Meninges
Bilateral Symmetry
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
Species
41. Degenerative brain disorder related to aging that first appears as progressive memory loss and later develops into generalized dementia.
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42. 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.
Frontal Lobe
Vertebrae
Sympathetic Division
Cladogram
43. Evolutionarily the oldest part of the brain; contains pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum structures that coordinate and control most voluntary and involuntary movements.
Gyrus (Gyri)
Species-typical behavior
Hindbrain
Radiator Hypothesis
44. Fiber system connecting the two cerebral hemispheres to provide a route for direct communication between them.
Sulcus (Sulci)
Gyrus (Gyri)
Corpus Callosum
Hemisphere
45. 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.
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Gray Matter
Forebrain
Central Nervous System (CNS)
46. 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.
Thalamus
Parietal Lobe
Culture
Cerebral Cortex
47. Large collection of axons coursing together outside of the central nervous system.
Inhibition
Alzheimer's Disease
Nerve
Excitation
48. 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.
Corpus Callosum
Stroke
Tract
Temporal Lobe
49. A groove in brain matter - usually a groove found in the neocortex or cerebellum.
Sulcus (Sulci)
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
Natural Selection
Ganglia
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.
Midbrain
Tectum
Cerebellum
Sulcus (Sulci)