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ETHOLOGICAL RESEARCH
STUDY OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOR IN ITS NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
MORGAN'S CANNON
RULE THAT THE SIMPLEST POSSIBLE INTERPRETATION FOR A BEHAVIORAL OBSERVATION SHOULD BE GIVEN PRECEDENCE
LEUCOTOME
ANY OF THE VARIOUS SURGICAL DEVICES USED FOR PERFORMING LOBOTOMIES
TRANSORBITAL LOBOTOMY
A PREFRONTAL LOBOTOMY PERFORMED WITH A CUTTING INSTRUMENT INSERTED THROUGH EYE SOCKET
ZEITGEIST
GENERAL INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE OF A CULTURE
INSTINCTIVE BEHAVIORS
BEHAVIORS THAT OCCUR IN ALL LIKE MEMBERS OF A SPECIES, EVEN WHEN THERE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN NO OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO HAVE BEEN LEARNED
ASOMATOGNOSIA
DEFICIENCY IN AWARENESS OF PARTS OF ONE'S OWN BODY
DUE TO DAMAGE TO RIGHT PARIETAL LOBE
CHORDATES
ANIMALS WITH DORSAL NERVE CORDS
VERTEBRATES
CHORDATES THAT POSSES SPINAL BONES
EXAPTATIONS
CHARACTERISTICS EVOLVED TO PERFORM ONE FUNCTION AND WERE LATER CO-OPTED TO PERFORM ANOTHER
CONVOLUTIONS
FOLDS ON CEREBRAL SURFACE
POLYGYNY
ARRANGEMENT IN WHICH ONE MALE FORMS MATING BONDS WITH MORE THAN ONE FEMALE
POLYANDRY
ARRANGEMENT IN WHICH ONE FEMALE FORMS MATING BONDS WITH MORE THAN ONE MALE
DOES NOT OCCUR IN MAMMALS
DICHOTOMOUS TRAITS
TRAITS THAT OCCUR IN ONE FORM OR THE OTHER, NEVER IN COMBINATION
ENHANCERS
STRETCHES OF DNA WHOSE FUNCTION IS TO DETERMINE WHETHER PARTICULAR STRUCTURAL GENES INITIATE THE SYNTHESIS OF PROTEINS AND AT WHAT RATE
EPIGENETICS
STUDY OF MECHANISMS THAT INFLUENCE EXPRESSION OF GENES WITHOUT CHANGING THE GENES THEMSELVES
MONOALLELIC EXPRESSION
A MECHANISM OF GENE EXPRESSION THAT INACTIVATES ONE GENE OF A PAIR OF ALLELES AND ALLOW THE OTHER GENE OF THE PAIR TO BE EXPRESSED
ONTOGENY
DEVELOPMENT OF INDIVIDUALS OVER THEIR LIFE SPAN
PHYLOGENY
EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIES THROUGH THE AGES
PHENYLKETONURIA
NEUROLOGICAL DISORDER HOSE SYMPTOMS ARE VOMITING, SEIZURES, HYPERACTIVITY, HYPER IRRITABILITY, MENTAL RETARDATION, BRAIN DAMAGE, AND HIGH LEVELS OF PHENYLPYRUVIC ACID IN URINE
MULTIPLIER EFFECT
WHEN A PARTICULAR GENE ENCOURAGES A DEVELOPING INDIVIDUAL TO SELECT EXPERIENCES THAT INCREASE BEHAVIORAL EFFECTS OF GENE
CRANCIAL NERVES
12 PAIRS OF NERVES EXTENDING FROM THE BRAIN
OPITC NERVES, OLFACTORY NERVES, VAGUS NERVES
MENINGES
DURAL MATER, ARACHNOID MEMBRANE, PIA MATER
DURA MATER
TOUGH MEMBRANE
ARACHNOID MEMBRANE
SPIDER LIKE MEMBRANE INSIDE DURA MATER
SUBARACHNOID SPACE
SPACE BENEATH ARACHNOID MEMBRANE CONTAINING MANY LARGE BLOOD VESSELS AND CEREBROSPINAL FLUID
PIA MATER
DELICATE MENINX THAT ADHERES TO SURFACE OF CNS
CHOROID PLEXUSES
NETWORKS OF CAPILLARIES THAT PROTRUDE INTO VENTRICLES FROM PIA MATER
PRODUCES CEREBROSPINAL FLUID
NUCLEI
CLUSTERS OF CELL BODIES IN CNS
GANGLIA
CLUSTERS OF CELL BODIES IN PNS
TRACTS
BUNDLES OF AXONS IN CNS
NERVES
BUNDLES OF AXONS IN PNS
CLASSES OF GLIAL CELLS
OLIGODENDROCYTES
SCHWANN CELLS
ASTROCYTES
MICROGLIA
INTERNEURONS
NEURONS IWTH A SHORT AON OR NO AXON AT ALL
INTEGRATE NEURAL ACTIVITY WITHIN A SINGLE BRAIN STRUCTURE
DOES NTO CONDUCT SIGNALS FROM ONE STRUCTURE TO ANOTHER
OLIGODENDROCYTES
GLIAL CELLS WITH EXTENSION SHTAT WRAP AROUND THE AXONS OF SOME NEURONS IN CNS
SCHWANN CELLS
GLIAL CELLS THAT COMPOSE THE MYELIN SHEATHS OF PNS AONS AND PROMOTE THEIR REGENERATION
MICROGLIA
SMALL GLIAL CELLS THAT RESPOND TO INJURY OR DISEASE BY MULTIPLYING, ENGULFING CELLULAR DEBRIS, AND TRIGGERING INFLAMMATORY RESPONSES
ASTROCYTES
LARGEST GLIAL CELLS
STAR SHAPED
SOME ASTROCYTE EXTENSIONS COVER OUTER SURFACES OF BLOOD VESSELS, ALLOWING PASSAGE OF CHEMICALS FORM BLOOD INTO CNS NEURONS OR BLOCKING THEM
GOLGI STAIN
A NEURAL STAIN THAT COMPLETELY DARKENS A FEW OF THE NEURONS IN EACH SLICE OF TISSUE, THEREBY REVEALING THEIR SILHOUETTES
NSSL STAIN
A NEURAL STAIN THAT HAS AN AFFINITY FOR STRUCTURES IN NEURON CELL BODIES
ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
NEUROANATAOMICAL TECHNIQUE USED TO STUDY THE FINE DETAILS OF CELLULAR STRUCTURE
ANTERIOR
TOWARDS NOSE END
POSTERIOR
TOWARDS TAIL END
DORSAL
TOWARDS SURFACE OF BACK OR TOP OF THE HEAD
VENTRAL
TOWARD THE SURFACE OF THE CHEST OR BOTTOM OF HEAD
MEDIAL
TOWARD MIDLINE OF BODY
LATERAL
AWAY FROM MIDLINE TOWARDS SIDE
ANTEROGRADE TRACING METHODS
TRACING PATHS OF AONS PROJECTING WAY FROM CELL BODIES OF PARTICULAR AREA
RETROGRADE TRACING METHODS
TRACING PATHS OF AXONS PROJECTING INTO PARTICULAR AREA
SUPERIOR
TOP OF HEAD
INFERIOR
BOTTOM OF HEAD
GRAY MATTER
CELL BODIES AND UNMYELINATED INTERNEURONS
WHITE MATTER
MYELINATED AXONS
DORSAL HORNS
DORSAL ARMS OF SPINAL GRAY MATTER
VENTRAL HORNS
VENTRAL ARMS OF SPINL GRAY MATTER
DORSAL ROOT GANGLIA
STRUCTURES JUST OUTSIDE THE SPINAL CORD THAT ARE COMPOSED OF THE CELL BDOIES OF DORSAL ROOT AXONS
MYELENCEPHALON
MEDULLA
COMPOSED OF TRACTS CARRYING SIGNALS BETWEEN THE REST OF THE BRAIN AND THE BODY
ORIGIN OF RETICULAR FORMATION
METENCEPHALON
COMPOSED OF CEREBELLUM AND PONS
MESENCEPHALON
COMPOSED OF TECTUM AND TEGMENTUM
TECTUM
DORSAL SURFACE OF MIDBRAIN
INFERIOR AND SUPERIOR COLLICULI
INFERIOR COLLICULI
AUDITORY FUNCTION
SUPERIOR COLLICULI
VISUAL FUNCTION
TEGMENTUM
CONTAINS RETICULAR FORMATION AND TRACTS OF PASSAGE
PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY, SUBSTANTIA NIGRA, RED NUCLEUS
PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY
GRAY MATTER SITUATED AROUND CEREBRAL AQUEDUCT
MEDIATES ANALGESIC EFFECTS OF OPIATE DRUGS
CEREBRAL AQUEDUCT
DUCT CONNECTING THIRD AND FORTH VENTRICLES
DIENCEPHALON
COMPOSED OF THALAMUS AND HYPOTHALAMUS
THALAMUS
LARGE, TWO LOBED STRUCTURE THAT CONSITUTUES THE TOP OF THE BRAIN STEM
MASSA INTERMEDIA
JOINS THE TWO LOBS OF THE THALAMUS
OPTIC CHIASM
POIINT AT WHICH THE OPTIC NERVES FROM EACH EYE COME TOGETHER
DECUSSATE
CROSS OVER TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BRAIN
CONTRALATERAL
PROJECTING FROM ONE SIDE OF THE BODY TO THE OTHER
IPSILATERAL
STAYING ON THE SAME SIDE OF THE BODY
MAMMILLARY BODIES
CONSIDERED TO BE PART OF HYPOTHALAMUS
PAIR OF SPHERICAL NUCLEI LOCATED ON TEH INFERIOR SURFACE OF THE HYPOTHALAMUS
TELENCEPHALON
CEREBRUM
FISSURES
LARGE FURROS IN CONVOLUTED CORTEX
SULCI
SMALL FURROWS IN CONVOLUTED CORTEX
GYRI
RIDGES BETWEEN FISSURES AND SULCI
LONGITUDINAL FISSURE
SEPARATES HEMISPHERES
CEREBRAL COMMISSURES
TRACTS SPANNING THE LONGITUDINAL FISSURE
CENTRAL FISSURE
DIVIDES FRONTAL AND TEMPORAL FROM PARIETAL AND OCCIPITAL
LATERAL FISSURE
SEPARATES FRONTAL AND PARIETAL FROM OCCIPITAL AND TEMPORAL
PRECENTRAL GYRI
FRONTAL LOBE
POSTCENTRAL GYRI
PARIETAL LOBE
SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRI
TEMPORAL LOBE
PYRAMIDIAL CELLS
LARGE MULTIPOLAR NEURONS WITH PYRAMID SHAPED CELL BODIES WITH A LARGE DENDRITE THAT EXTENDS FROM THE APEX OF THE PYRAMID STRAIGHT TOWARD THE CORTEX SURFACE
STELLATE CELLS
SMALL STAR SHAPED INTERNEURONS
COLUMNAR ORGANIZATION
NEURONS IN A GIVEN VERTICAL COLUMN OF NEOCORTEX OFTEN FORM A MINI CIRCUIT THAT PERFORMS A SINGLE FUNCTION
CINGULATE CORTEX
LARGE STRIP OF CORTEX IN CINGULATE GYRUS ON MEDIAL SURFACE OF CEREBRAL HEMISPHERES
FORNIX
MAJOR TRACT OF LIMBIC SYSTEM
ENCIRCLING DORSAL THALAMUS
SEPTUM
MIDLINE NUCLEUS LOCATED AT ANTERIOR TIP OF CINGULATE CORTEX
BASAL GANGLIA
A COLLECTION OF SUBCORTICAL NUCLEI THAT HAVE IMPORTANT MOTOR FUNCTIONS
STRIATUM AND GOLBUS PALLIDUS
PUTAMEN
CENTER OF EACH CAUDATE
CAUDATE
TAIL LIKE STRUCTURE THAT IS PART OF STRIATUM