Diagnosis
This disorder involves intense fear of being watched, judged, or embarrassed in front of others, often leading to avoidance of everyday interactions.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder?
This singer and actress, known for songs like "Sorry Not Sorry," has spoken publicly about her bipolar disorder diagnosis.
Who is Demi Lavato?
This Austrian neurologist founded psychoanalysis and developed theories about the unconscious mind, id, ego, and superego.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
These animals have been observed doing this behavior around their dead, including touching bones and standing vigil, suggesting a form of grief.
What are elephants?
Often called the brain's "fear center," this almond-shaped structure processes threat detection and emotional responses like fear and anxiety.
What is the amygdala?
This mood disorder is diagnosed when a person experiences at least two weeks of persistent low mood, loss of interest in activities, and changes in sleep or appetite.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
This "Saturday Night Live" alum and comedian has been open about living with Borderline Personality Disorder.
This Swiss psychiatrist, once a close colleague of Freud, developed his own theories on the collective unconscious and archetypes.
Who is Carl Jung?
This highly intelligent sea creature can solve puzzles, use tools, and even recognize individual human faces, despite having a decentralized nervous system.
What is an Octopus?
This region is critical for forming new memories and is often smaller in people with chronic depression or PTSD due to prolonged stress.
What is the hippocampus?
This disorder involves intrusive, unwanted thoughts paired with repetitive behaviors or mental acts performed to reduce the anxiety those thoughts cause.
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
This actress, known for "La La Land" and "Easy A," has spoken about experiencing panic attacks and anxiety since childhood.
Who is Emma Stone?
This British psychologist developed a theory proposing that early bonds with caregivers shape emotional development throughout life.
What is attachment theory?
This marine mammal is one of the few animals that can recognize itself in a mirror, a sign of self-awareness.
What is a dolphin?
Located at the front of the brain, this area handles decision-making, impulse control, and emotional regulation — and continues developing into a person's mid-20s.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This personality disorder is marked by intense fear of abandonment, unstable relationships, impulsivity, and rapid shifts in self-image and mood.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
This "Star Wars" actress and author wrote candidly about her bipolar disorder in books like "Wishful Drinking."
Who is Carrie Fisher?
This therapy technique uses guided eye movements to help process traumatic memories, and was developed by Francine Shapiro in the late 1980s.
What is EMDR?
These birds are known to hold what looks like "funerals," gathering around a dead member of their group, and are also capable of recognizing individual human faces for years.
What are crows?
This structure helps detect errors and emotional conflict, and is often implicated in OCD due to its role in the brain's "worry loop."
What is the anterior cingulate cortex?
This term describes a break from reality that can include hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking, and can occur in disorders like schizophrenia.
What is Psychosis?
This singer and actress has discussed her bipolar disorder diagnosis and how it relates to her lupus treatment.
Who is Selena Gomez?
This widely used, structured form of talk therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, developed by Aaron Beck.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
This is the cutest animal on earth.
Red Panda
This brain structure regulates the body's stress response by controlling the release of cortisol through the HPA axis.
What is the hypothalamus?