words from MacDonald's Your Brain: The Missing Manual

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  1. accommodation
    making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
  2. amygdala
    the part of the brain responsible for emotional and behavioral reactions
  3. assimilate
    make alike
  4. causation
    the act of making something happen
  5. cerebral
    of or relating to the brain
  6. cerebral cortex
    the outermost layer of the cerebrum
  7. compartmentalization
    the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
  8. conscientious
    characterized by extreme care and great effort
  9. conscious
    having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts
  10. consciousness
    an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself
  11. correlation
    a reciprocal connection between two or more things
  12. dissociation
    the act of removing from association
  13. empathy
    understanding and entering into another's feelings
  14. extravert
    (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings
  15. fallacy
    a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
  16. familial
    relating to a social unit living together
  17. gene
    part of DNA controlling physical characteristics and growth
  18. hypothalamus
    a basal part of the diencephalon governing autonomic nervous system
  19. introvert
    a person who tends to shrink from social contacts
  20. limbic system
    a system of functionally related neural structures in the brain that are involved in emotional behavior
  21. logical
    based on known statements or events or conditions
  22. logical fallacy
    an error in reasoning that undermines an argument
  23. nature
    the physical world including plants and animals
  24. neurology
    the branch of medicine that deals with the nervous system
  25. neuron
    a cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses
  26. nurture
    provide with nourishment
  27. pituitary
    of or relating to the pituitary gland
  28. pituitary gland
    the master gland of the endocrine system
  29. synapse
    the junction between two neurons
  30. hippocampus
    a structure in the floor of the brain's lateral ventricle
  31. homeostasis
    metabolic equilibrium maintained by biological mechanisms
  32. hypothesis
    a tentative insight that is not yet verified or tested
  33. mnemonic
    of or relating to the practice of aiding the memory
  34. mnemonics
    a method or system for improving the memory
  35. determinism
    (philosophy) a philosophical theory holding that all events are inevitable consequences of antecedent sufficient causes; often understood as denying the possibility of free will
  36. neurotic
    affected by worry due to a mental disturbance
  37. prefrontal cortex
    the brain region related to decision-making, personality, and behavior
  38. reasoning
    thinking that is organized and logical
  39. reason
    a logical motive for a belief or action
Created on 八月 20, 2011 (updated 八月 20, 2011)

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