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Behavioral Neuroscience

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






2. 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.






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






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






5. Area of the skin supplied with afferent nerve fibers by a single spinal-cord dorsal root.






6. 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.






7. Philosophical position that holds that behavior can be explained as a function of the nervous system without explanatory recourse to the mind.






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






9. 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






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






11. General term referring to primates that walk upright - including all forms of humans - living and extinct.






12. 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.






13. 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.






14. Hypothesis that the movements that we make and those that we perceive in others are essential features of our conscious behavior.






15. Newest - outer layer (new bark) of the forebrain and composed of about six layers of gray matter that creates or reality.






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






17. Approved experiment directed toward developing a treatment.






18. Group of organisms that can interbreed.






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






20. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






26. 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.






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






29. Condition in which a person is alive but unable to communicate or to function independently at even the most basic level.






30. 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.






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






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






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






34. Phylogenetic tree that branches repeatedly - suggesting a taxonomy of organisms based on the time sequence in which evolutionary branches arise.






35. Diencephalon structure through which information from all sensory systems is integrated and projected into the appropriate region of the neocortex.






36. All the neurons in the body located outside the brain and the spinal cord; provides sensory and motor connections to and from the CNS






37. Conducting toward a central nervous system structure.






38. Diencephalon structure through which information from all sensory systems is integrated into the appropriate region of the neocortex.






39. Degenerative brain disorder related to aging that first appears as progressive memory loss and later develops into generalized dementia.

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40. Conducting away from the central nervous system structure.






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






42. Large collection of axons coursing together within the central nervous system.






43. 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.






44. Condition in which a person can display some rudimentary behaviors - such as smiling - or utter a few words but is otherwise not conscious.






45. Central structures of the brain - including the hindbrain - midbrain - thalamus - and hypothalamus - responsible for most unconscious behavior.






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






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






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






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






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