Downstairs Brain
The real term for your "Downstairs Brain"
What is the brain stem?
The middle brain is responsible for these two things
Feelings and memories
The real term for your Upstairs Brain?
Prefrontal Cortex
The brain uses this much of our body's energy
What is 20%?
The number one way to calm our nervous system
What is deep belly breathing?
Also known as your "Survival Brain"
What is the Brain Stem?
The danger or threat detector of our brain
What is the Amygdala?
The Prefrontal Cortex is located here
Where is behind your forehead?
Brain's basic building blocks
What is a neuron?
Exercises that use breath (and sometimes movement or rhythm) to help us calm our brains and improve focus
What is a Focused Attention Practice?
The Brain Stem controls _________ functions in our body such as breathing, heart beat, and digestion
What is automatic?
The brain releases these chemicals when we feel stress
What are Cortisol and Adrenaline?
The last part of the brain to develop and is responsible for thinking, language, and problem solving
What is the Prefrontal cortex?
The brain weighs this much
3-4 pounds or 4 tubs of butter
An exercise that introduces a new and challenging task and wakes up the brain
What is a Brain Interval?
The brain stem is the size of ____ and located ____
What is your thumb and located at the base of your skull.
Using the hand model, show us where the amygdala is located.
Your thumb inside your fist
Like a computer, the prefrontal cortex ____________ and _______ when hijacked by stress
What is goes offline and shuts down?
A mental health condition that is affecting 1/3 of students all over the country
What is anxiety?
The survival response that comes from the brain stem after being triggered by the amygdala
What is the Fight, Flight, or Freeze response?
Shaped like a seahorse and is responsible for short term memory and can be damaged under stress
What is the hippocampus?
When our amygdala detects a threat, it sends a danger message to our survival brain to Fight, Flee, or Freeze. Then we lose control of our thinking brain, and it is called _______ (using your hand model)
3 things the brain needs to stay healthy
What is exercise, water, healthy food, sleep and oxygen
When we are stressed, angry, sad, or feeling emotions, this is the part of the brain that decides if we are safe or not
What is the middle brain?