Parts of the Brain
Parts of the Brain/Meditation
Mood Disorders- True or False
Psychological Disorders
Miscellaneous
100
Responsible for planning, organizing, problem-solving, decision-making, memory and impulse control
What is the frontal lobe?
100
Controls breathing, heart-rate, blood pressure, and swallowing.
What is the brain stem?
100
You're more likely to suffer from a mood disorder if your parent or relative does - genetics plays a role.
What is true?
100
Racing thoughts, inability to sit still, difficulty concentrating, and inflated self-esteem are all symptoms of what state of bipolar disorder?
What is a manic state?
100
A group of disorders that cause the afflicted person to experience pain, paranoia or fear as a result of certain psychological factors.
What are somatoform disorders?
200
Integrates sensory information, tells us which way is up, keeps us from bumping into things.
What is the parietal lobe?
200
Responsible for memory creation and retention.
What is the hippocampus?
200
Depression is the least common of all psychological disorders.
False. It is the most common.
200
People who are schizophrenic always get worse as they become much older.
False. Sometimes the disease fades with age.
200
Involves the actual loss of function in parts of the body. For example, those afflicted can experience blindness, paralysis, and numbness due to excessive anxiety. This is usually temporary, but serious cases can last for months.
What is conversion disorder?
300
Receives and processes visual information
What is the occipital lobe?
300
During meditation, this part of the brain tends to "go offline" - stop processing.
What is the frontal lobe?
300
50 percent of depressed individuals eventually commit suicide.
False.
300
A persistent, excessive or irrational fear of a certain object.
What is phobic disorder?
300
The symptoms are physical discomfort (including pain, itching and burning) without any medical explanation
What is somatization disorder?
400
Responsible for recognizing and processing sound and understanding and producing speech
What is the temporal lobe?
400
During meditation, activity in this part of the brain slows down
What is the parietal lobe?
400
Choosing the right medication for depression is a long, arduous process of trial and error.
True. Individuals with depression may go through several different medications before choosing the right one.
400
Unrealistic worry about life circumstances that lasts for 6 at least months. This is very common among Americans.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
400
Drugs that slow the activity of the nervous system.
What are depressants?
500
Deals with balance, movement, and coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
500
During meditation, the flow of incoming information to this part of the brain is "reduced to a trickle"
What is the thalamus?
500
People with depression suffer from hallucinations, delusions, and manic states.
False. Those are symptoms of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
500
Caused by over-activity of the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system.
What is anxiety?
500
A class of drugs that increases the activity of the nervous system.
What are stimulants?
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