Proper functioning of the body and its parts
What is Physical Health?
Has no pain receptors and is divided into hemispheres
What is the Brain?
Mental and emotional wellness; promotes a positive attitude and self-esteem, helps people cope with normal stresses of life, and helps people work productively
What is Mental Health?
Part of brain located at base of skull that is involved in basic life processes
What is Hindbrain?
Involves sound relationships, building connections with other people and making contributions to the community and society
What is Social Health?
Description of how a person physically grows; differ from person to person; determined by heredity
What is Growth Patterns?
Major communication link between the brain and the peripheral nervous system
What is Spinal Cord?
Great sadness caused by the loss of a person or thing
What is Grief?
Region of the brain which plays an important role in the combination of sensory perception and motor output
What is Cerebellum?
Body’s physical and mental response to unpleasant or difficult situations
What is Stress?
feeling nervous, unsure or scared about something
What is Anxiety?
Connect the central nervous system (CNS) to sensory organ
What is Peripheral Nerve?
Mental health disorder characterized by long-lasting, intense sadness leading to feeling helpless, hopeless and/or worthless
What is Depression?
Receive smell and voice input and are involved in memory, thought and judgment
What is Temporal Lobes?
Conditions which hinder or prevent good mental health
What is Mental Health Disorder?
Distortion in eating accompanied and supported by an emotional problem
What is Eating Disorders?
Largest part of brain consisting of left and right hemispheres
What is Forebrain?
Eating disorder characterized by the obsession of control over food intake in order to be thin
What is Anorexia?
Involved in smell, voluntary motor function, motivation, aggression and mood
What is Frontal Lobes?
Eating disorder characterized by binging and purging to control food intake and body weight
What is Bulimia?
Mental disorders which affect a person’s mood; sometimes called affective disorders
What is Mood Disorders?
Integrates sensor information that passes between the spinal cord and forebrain.
What is Midbrain?
Psychiatric disorders causing a person to act differently than the social norm; categorized as cluster A, B or C
What is Personality Disorders?
Contain sensory areas which control basic senses, taste and balance
What is Occipital Lobes?
Portion of the brain which is generally thought of when the brain is mentioned
What is Cerebellum?