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Behavioral Neuroscience
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1. Major structure of the forebrain - consisting of two virtually identical hemispheres (left and right) and responsible for most conscious behavior.
Tegmentum
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
Cerebrum
Encephalization quotient
2. Condition in which a person is alive but unable to communicate or to function independently at even the most basic level.
Neuron
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
Limbic system
Hypothalamus
3. Synonym for mind - an entity once proposed to be the source of human behavior.
Psyche
Orienting movement
White Matter
Parkinson's Disease
4. A groove in brain matter - usually a groove found in the neocortex or cerebellum.
Mentalism
Stroke
Neuroplasticity
Sulcus (Sulci)
5. The brain and spinal cord that together mediate behavior.
Parasympathetic Division
Midbrain
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Central Nervous System (CNS)
6. Newest - outer layer (new bark) of the forebrain and composed of about six layers of gray matter that creates or reality.
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
Afferent
Forebrain
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
7. 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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8. Approved experiment directed toward developing a treatment.
Tract
Clinical Trial
Bilateral Symmetry
Mentalism
9. The general principle that sensory fibers are located dorsally and motors fibers are located ventrally.
Neocortex (cerebral cortex)
Law of Bell and Magendie
Diencephalon
Cladogram
10. General term referring to primates that walk upright - including all forms of humans - living and extinct.
Cladogram
Parkinson's Disease
Hominid
Midbrain
11. Floor (area below the ventricle) of the midbrain; a collection of nuclei with movement-related - species-specific - and pain-perception functions.
Ganglia
Tegmentum
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Alzheimer's Disease
12. 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.
Species-typical behavior
Gyrus (Gyri)
Hemispherectomy
Sympathetic Division
13. Large collection of axons coursing together within the central nervous system.
Tract
Stroke
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Midbrain
14. A small protrusion or bump formed by the folding of the cerebral cortex.
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Gyrus (Gyri)
Hindbrain
Species-typical behavior
15. Phylogenetic tree that branches repeatedly - suggesting a taxonomy of organisms based on the time sequence in which evolutionary branches arise.
Inhibition
Cerebral Cortex
Psyche
Cladogram
16. 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.
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Cerebrum
Tegmentum
Nerve Set
17. A group of cells forming a cluster that can be identified with special stains to form a functional grouping.
Cladogram
Orienting movement
Vertebrae
Nucleus (Nuclei)
18. A specialized 'nerve cell' engaged in information processing.
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Temporal Lobe
Neuron
Law of Bell and Magendie
19. Learned behaviors that are passed on from on generation to the next through teaching and experience.
Tourettes's Syndrome
Culture
Efferent
Parietal Lobe
20. 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.
Frontal Lobe
Cerebellum
Psyche
Nerve
21. Wound to the brain that results from a blow to the head..
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Meninges
Mind
Hominid
22. One of a set of 12 nerve pairs that control sensory and motor functions of the head - neck - and internal organs.
Dermatome
Cranial nerve
Nucleus (Nuclei)
Neuroplasticity
23. Proposed nonmaterial entity responsible for intelligence - attention - awareness and consciousness.
Clinical Trial
Species
Hemispherectomy
Mind
24. Collection of nerve cells that function somewhat like a brain.
Neoteny
Ganglia
Neuron
Forebrain
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.
Neuroplasticity
Efferent
Mind-Body Problem
Temporal Lobe
26. All the neurons in the body located outside the brain and the spinal cord; provides sensory and motor connections to and from the CNS
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
Radiator Hypothesis
White Matter
27. 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.
Gray Matter
Dualism
Gyrus (Gyri)
Law of Bell and Magendie
28. Part of the PNS that regulates the functioning of internal organs and glands.
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Materialism
Mind
Encephalization quotient
29. Large collection of axons coursing together outside of the central nervous system.
Nerve
Culture
Parasympathetic Division
Brainstem
30. Conducting away from the central nervous system structure.
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Efferent
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Limbic system
31. Areas of the nervous system rich in fat-sheathed neural axons that form the connections between brain cells.
Nucleus (Nuclei)
Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
Neoteny
White Matter
32. 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
Orienting movement
Temporal Lobe
Efferent
33. 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.
Somatic Nervous System (SNS)
Gray Matter
Sulcus (Sulci)
Diencephalon
34. Movement related to sensory inputs - such as turning the head to see the source of a sound.
Afferent
Orienting movement
Spinal Cord
Mentalism
35. Midbrain area in which nuclei and fiber pathways are mixed - producing a netlike appearance; associated with sleep-wake behavior and behavioral arousal.
Reticular Formation
Cranial nerve
Gyrus (Gyri)
Hemispherectomy
36. 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.
Cerebrum
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Species-typical behavior
Parasympathetic Division
37. Animal that has both a brain and a spinal cord.
Midbrain
Parkinson's Disease
Chordate
Culture
38. Roof (area above the ventricle) of the midbrain; its functions are sensory processing - particular visual and auditory - and the production of orienting movements.
Embodied Consciousness
Tectum
Hemisphere
Excitation
39. Diencephalon structure through which information from all sensory systems is integrated into the appropriate region of the neocortex.
Cytoarchitectonic map
Cerebrum
Thalamus
Occipital Lobe
40. Body plan in which organs or parts present on both sides of the body are mirror images in appearance.
Species-typical behavior
Frontal Lobe
Natural Selection
Bilateral Symmetry
41. 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.
Hypothalamus
Frontal Lobe
Meninges
Hominid
42. Cerebral cortex where visual processing begins - lying at the back of the brain ad beneath the occipital bone.
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Occipital Lobe
Mind-Body Problem
Sulcus (Sulci)
43. Literally - half a sphere - referring to one side of the cerebral cortex or of one side of the cerebellum.
Tectum
Ventricle
Tourettes's Syndrome
Hemisphere
44. The bones - or segments - that form the spinal column.
Species
Vertebrae
Bilateral Symmetry
Clinical Trial
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.
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
Mentalism
Forebrain
46. 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)
Sympathetic Division
Limbic system
Temporal Lobe
47. Area of the skin supplied with afferent nerve fibers by a single spinal-cord dorsal root.
Dermatome
Common Ancestor
Ventricle
Thalamus
48. Of the mind; an explanation of behavior as a function of the nonmaterial mind.
Cranial nerve
Mentalism
Hemisphere
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
49. 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.
Encephalization quotient
Species
Radiator Hypothesis
Natural Selection
50. Neurosurgery in which electrodes implanted in the brain stimulate a targeted area with a low-voltage electrical current to facilitate behavior.
Law of Bell and Magendie
Tegmentum
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Cerebral Cortex