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Behavioral Neuroscience
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1. Behavior that is characteristic of all members of a species.
Corpus Callosum
Species-typical behavior
Parietal Lobe
Alzheimer's Disease
2. Part of the autonomic nervous system; acts in opposition to the sympathetic division- for example - preparing the body to rest and digest by reversing the alarm response or stimulating digestion.
Reticular Formation
Parasympathetic Division
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Natural Selection
3. A groove in brain matter - usually a groove found in the neocortex or cerebellum.
Tourettes's Syndrome
Neuron
Sulcus (Sulci)
Inhibition
4. Subcortical forebrain nuclei that coordinate voluntary movements of the limbs and body; connected to the thalamus and to the midbrain.
Hominid
Nerve Set
Basal ganglia
Tourettes's Syndrome
5. Approved experiment directed toward developing a treatment.
Culture
Alzheimer's Disease
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Clinical Trial
6. Fiber system connecting the two cerebral hemispheres to provide a route for direct communication between them.
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Corpus Callosum
Hemispherectomy
7. 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.
Alzheimer's Disease
Reticular Formation
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Encephalization quotient
8. Animal that has both a brain and a spinal cord.
Tourettes's Syndrome
Chordate
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Basal ganglia
9. Synonym for mind - an entity once proposed to be the source of human behavior.
Spinal Cord
Psyche
Gyrus (Gyri)
Species-typical behavior
10. Literally - half a sphere - referring to one side of the cerebral cortex or of one side of the cerebellum.
Nucleus (Nuclei)
Law of Bell and Magendie
Stroke
Hemisphere
11. 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.
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Cranial nerve
Frontal Lobe
12. Wound to the brain that results from a blow to the head..
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Hemisphere
Temporal Lobe
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
13. General term referring to primates that walk upright - including all forms of humans - living and extinct.
Brainstem
Parasympathetic Division
Hominid
Nucleus (Nuclei)
14. One of a set of 12 nerve pairs that control sensory and motor functions of the head - neck - and internal organs.
Cranial nerve
Cytoarchitectonic map
Chordate
Nerve
15. Part of the PNS that regulates the functioning of internal organs and glands.
Thalamus
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Gyrus (Gyri)
Chordate
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.
Dermatome
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
Mind-Body Problem
Sympathetic Division
17. 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
Ventricle
Orienting movement
Limbic system
Gray Matter
18. Decrease in the activity of a neuron or brain area.
Inhibition
Cerebral Cortex
Nerve Set
Forebrain
19. 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.
Neuron
Frontal Lobe
Natural Selection
Nerve Set
20. Increase in the activity of a neuron or brain area.
Temporal Lobe
Excitation
Meninges
Orienting movement
21. Sudden appearance of neurological symptom as a result of severe interruption of blood flow.
Tectum
Orienting movement
Stroke
Species
22. 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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23. Major structure of the forebrain - consisting of two virtually identical hemispheres (left and right) and responsible for most conscious behavior.
Mind
Cerebrum
Segmentation
Encephalization quotient
24. Collection of nerve cells that function somewhat like a brain.
Hindbrain
Ganglia
Cerebral Cortex
Mentalism
25. Area of the skin supplied with afferent nerve fibers by a single spinal-cord dorsal root.
Tract
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Encephalization quotient
Dermatome
26. One of four cavities in the brain that contain cerebrospinal fluid that cushions the brain and may play a role in maintaining brain metabolism.
Encephalization quotient
Cranial nerve
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
Ventricle
27. 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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28. Diencephalon structure through which information from all sensory systems is integrated and projected into the appropriate region of the neocortex.
Parasympathetic Division
Mentalism
Hypothalamus
Tourettes's Syndrome
29. Roof (area above the ventricle) of the midbrain; its functions are sensory processing - particular visual and auditory - and the production of orienting movements.
Bilateral Symmetry
Parkinson's Disease
Radiator Hypothesis
Tectum
30. Outer layer of brain-tissue surface composed of neurons; the human cerebral cortex is heavily folded.
Cerebral Cortex
Hemisphere
Neuron
Frontal Lobe
31. A group of cells forming a cluster that can be identified with special stains to form a functional grouping.
Nucleus (Nuclei)
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
Gyrus (Gyri)
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
32. The nervous system's potential for physical or chemical change that enhances its adaptability to environmental change and its ability to compensate for injury.
Tourettes's Syndrome
Neuroplasticity
Alzheimer's Disease
Embodied Consciousness
33. Diencephalon structure through which information from all sensory systems is integrated into the appropriate region of the neocortex.
Diencephalon
Clinical Trial
Thalamus
Corpus Callosum
34. 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.
Vertebrae
Parietal Lobe
Gyrus (Gyri)
Cladogram
35. That holds that both a nonmaterial mind and the material body contribute to behavior.
Dualism
White Matter
Tectum
Frontal Lobe
36. Areas of the nervous system rich in fat-sheathed neural axons that form the connections between brain cells.
Reticular Formation
Nerve Set
White Matter
Excitation
37. All the neurons in the body located outside the brain and the spinal cord; provides sensory and motor connections to and from the CNS
Parkinson's Disease
Nerve
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
Occipital Lobe
38. The brain and spinal cord that together mediate behavior.
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Bilateral Symmetry
Common Ancestor
Excitation
39. 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.
Sympathetic Division
Natural Selection
Cerebellum
Hemispherectomy
40. Movement related to sensory inputs - such as turning the head to see the source of a sound.
Parkinson's Disease
Gray Matter
Orienting movement
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
41. Midbrain area in which nuclei and fiber pathways are mixed - producing a netlike appearance; associated with sleep-wake behavior and behavioral arousal.
Efferent
Segmentation
Reticular Formation
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
42. Body plan in which organs or parts present on both sides of the body are mirror images in appearance.
Hemisphere
Cytoarchitectonic map
Tegmentum
Bilateral Symmetry
43. A specialized 'nerve cell' engaged in information processing.
Limbic system
Chordate
Neuron
Cerebrum
44. Floor (area below the ventricle) of the midbrain; a collection of nuclei with movement-related - species-specific - and pain-perception functions.
Tourettes's Syndrome
Embodied Consciousness
Stroke
Tegmentum
45. Conducting away from the central nervous system structure.
Efferent
Corpus Callosum
Limbic system
Mind
46. 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.
Alzheimer's Disease
Nerve Set
Cranial nerve
Frontal Lobe
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.
Tectum
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Cladogram
Radiator Hypothesis
48. 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.
Nerve
Spinal Cord
Cerebral Cortex
Hemisphere
49. The general principle that sensory fibers are located dorsally and motors fibers are located ventrally.
Alzheimer's Disease
Law of Bell and Magendie
Frontal Lobe
Inhibition
50. Proposed nonmaterial entity responsible for intelligence - attention - awareness and consciousness.
Law of Bell and Magendie
Mind
Nucleus (Nuclei)
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)