ADHD
The most commonly diagnosed behavioral disorder of childhood.
What is ADHD?
The most reliable option for managing anxiety
What is physical activity?
The medications that can help reduce symptoms of Depression.
What are antidepressants?
The two moods included in Bipolar Disorder.
What are mania and depression?
True or False:
Honeybees can recognize human faces.
True! Bees see faces in a compilation of 5, 000 individual images - kind of like pixels
Boys are this many times more likely to develop ADHD than girls.
What is 2-3 times?
The stress response to dangerous situations is fear. This response is more constant with feelings of discomfort and tension.
What is anxiety?
The feelings of sadness or unhappiness we all experience.
What is depression?
What are three common symptoms of mania.
What are Increased energy/activity, rapid thoughts and speech, grandiose plans and beliefs, being impulsive, lack of insight, psychosis?
True/False. Peanuts are not a true nut.
True.
A key learning skill that is difficult for students with ADHD.
What is concentration?
Stomach upset, shaking, and headaches.
What are symptoms of anxiety?
A hormone whose levels in the blood are high in persons with Major Depressive Disorder.
What is cortisol?
Two contributors/causes of Bipolar Disorder.
What are genetic factors, stress, and seasons?
Bonus. What kind of seed is a peanut?
Legume.
When someone can’t sit still and needs to be on the move constantly.
What is hyperactivity?
Intense fears about particular objects or situations that limit what we can do in our lives.
eg. arachniphobia, claustrophobia, acrophobia
What are phobias?
A type of depression that occurs in about 1-2 cases per 1000 childbirths.
What is postpartum depression or the “baby blues”?
Thinking of seasons, _________ is when mania commonly occurs, just as _________ is when depression is common.
What is spring and early winter?
The largest animal ever to live on earth.
Blue whale (200 tonnes)
The drive to take risks, blurt out words, and disregard others.
What is impulsive?
The fear of being in a place that would be difficult or embarrassing to leave.
What is agoraphobia?
Two parts of the brain: one shrinks and the other enlarges with untreated Depression.
What are the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala?
List three effective treatments for Bipolar Disorder.
What are medication, psychotherapy/counselling, using support systems, light therapy, and insight?
True/False. There are more people on Earth than life forms living on your skin.
False.