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Behavioral Neuroscience
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1. Evolutionarily the oldest part of the brain; contains pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum structures that coordinate and control most voluntary and involuntary movements.
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Hindbrain
Cranial nerve
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
2. Large collection of axons coursing together outside of the central nervous system.
Temporal Lobe
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Clinical Trial
Nerve
3. Areas of the nervous system rich in fat-sheathed neural axons that form the connections between brain cells.
Temporal Lobe
Cerebral Cortex
White Matter
Orienting movement
4. Central part of the brain that contains neural circuits for hearing and seeing as well as orienting movements.
Occipital Lobe
Midbrain
Hominid
Culture
5. Philosophical position that holds that behavior can be explained as a function of the nervous system without explanatory recourse to the mind.
Parietal Lobe
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Materialism
Common Ancestor
6. Condition in which a person can display some rudimentary behaviors - such as smiling - or utter a few words but is otherwise not conscious.
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
Brainstem
Mentalism
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
7. 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.
Thalamus
Sulcus (Sulci)
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Spinal Cord
8. The nervous system's potential for physical or chemical change that enhances its adaptability to environmental change and its ability to compensate for injury.
Law of Bell and Magendie
Nucleus (Nuclei)
Neuroplasticity
Limbic system
9. Diencephalon structure through which information from all sensory systems is integrated into the appropriate region of the neocortex.
Thalamus
Clinical Trial
Neoteny
Parasympathetic Division
10. 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.
Nerve
Encephalization quotient
Temporal Lobe
Bilateral Symmetry
11. 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.
Parietal Lobe
Meninges
Cerebrum
Segmentation
12. 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.
Tectum
Cranial nerve
Natural Selection
Segmentation
13. Area of the skin supplied with afferent nerve fibers by a single spinal-cord dorsal root.
Reticular Formation
Dermatome
Tourettes's Syndrome
Brainstem
14. Diencephalon structure through which information from all sensory systems is integrated and projected into the appropriate region of the neocortex.
Hypothalamus
Neoteny
Hindbrain
Nerve
15. Behavior that is characteristic of all members of a species.
Clinical Trial
Neuron
Species-typical behavior
Law of Bell and Magendie
16. Approved experiment directed toward developing a treatment.
Encephalization quotient
Limbic system
Clinical Trial
Reticular Formation
17. A groove in brain matter - usually a groove found in the neocortex or cerebellum.
Midbrain
Psyche
Limbic system
Sulcus (Sulci)
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.
Meninges
Nerve Set
Psyche
Neuroplasticity
19. The 'between brain' that integrates sensory and motor information on its way to the cerebral cortex.
Cerebellum
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Common Ancestor
Diencephalon
20. Animal that has both a brain and a spinal cord.
Neuroplasticity
Parasympathetic Division
Chordate
Dualism
21. 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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22. Three layers of protective tissue - dura mater - arachnoid - and pia mater - that encase the brain and spinal cord.
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Sympathetic Division
Meninges
Reticular Formation
23. Decrease in the activity of a neuron or brain area.
Stroke
Midbrain
Inhibition
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
24. 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.
Mind-Body Problem
Species
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
25. Subcortical forebrain nuclei that coordinate voluntary movements of the limbs and body; connected to the thalamus and to the midbrain.
Basal ganglia
Parkinson's Disease
Nerve Set
Sulcus (Sulci)
26. Surgical removal of a cerebral hemisphere.
Nerve
Hemispherectomy
Hemisphere
Hypothalamus
27. Conducting toward a central nervous system structure.
Afferent
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Basal ganglia
Dermatome
28. Map of the neocortex based on the organization - structure - and distribution of the cells.
White Matter
Alzheimer's Disease
Mind-Body Problem
Cytoarchitectonic map
29. General term referring to primates that walk upright - including all forms of humans - living and extinct.
Cerebral Cortex
Frontal Lobe
Hominid
Midbrain
30. A group of cells forming a cluster that can be identified with special stains to form a functional grouping.
Occipital Lobe
Hemisphere
Nucleus (Nuclei)
Parietal Lobe
31. All the neurons in the body located outside the brain and the spinal cord; provides sensory and motor connections to and from the CNS
Occipital Lobe
Vertebrae
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
Brainstem
32. The brain and spinal cord that together mediate behavior.
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
Culture
Materialism
Central Nervous System (CNS)
33. 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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34. Of the mind; an explanation of behavior as a function of the nonmaterial mind.
Mentalism
Cerebral Cortex
Mind-Body Problem
Segmentation
35. The general principle that sensory fibers are located dorsally and motors fibers are located ventrally.
Chordate
Law of Bell and Magendie
Afferent
Culture
36. Wound to the brain that results from a blow to the head..
Cytoarchitectonic map
Clinical Trial
Cerebral Cortex
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
37. Cerebral cortex where visual processing begins - lying at the back of the brain ad beneath the occipital bone.
Cranial nerve
Occipital Lobe
Temporal Lobe
Corpus Callosum
38. 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.
Midbrain
Law of Bell and Magendie
Neuroplasticity
Sympathetic Division
39. Floor (area below the ventricle) of the midbrain; a collection of nuclei with movement-related - species-specific - and pain-perception functions.
Brainstem
Tegmentum
Ganglia
Thalamus
40. Quandary of explaining a nonmaterial mind in command of a material body.
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
Gyrus (Gyri)
Mind-Body Problem
Psyche
41. Large collection of axons coursing together within the central nervous system.
Embodied Consciousness
Tract
Stroke
Bilateral Symmetry
42. Increase in the activity of a neuron or brain area.
Ventricle
Hemisphere
Law of Bell and Magendie
Excitation
43. One of a set of 12 nerve pairs that control sensory and motor functions of the head - neck - and internal organs.
Cytoarchitectonic map
Frontal Lobe
Cranial nerve
Ganglia
44. Group of organisms that can interbreed.
Cytoarchitectonic map
Species
Mind
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
45. Hypothesis that the movements that we make and those that we perceive in others are essential features of our conscious behavior.
Mind-Body Problem
Embodied Consciousness
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
Efferent
46. Major structure of the forebrain - consisting of two virtually identical hemispheres (left and right) and responsible for most conscious behavior.
Tract
Nerve Set
Tourettes's Syndrome
Cerebrum
47. 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)
Chordate
Embodied Consciousness
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
48. Outer layer of brain-tissue surface composed of neurons; the human cerebral cortex is heavily folded.
Species-typical behavior
Mind-Body Problem
Cerebral Cortex
Mentalism
49. Phylogenetic tree that branches repeatedly - suggesting a taxonomy of organisms based on the time sequence in which evolutionary branches arise.
Gyrus (Gyri)
Neuroplasticity
Cladogram
Tectum
50. Forbearer from which two or more lineages or family groups arise and so is ancestral to both groups.
Gyrus (Gyri)
Culture
Common Ancestor
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
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