My Brain
It monitors and regulates many bodily functions through the hormones that it produces.
What is the pituitary gland?
It is a chemical released in the brain that makes you feel good.
What is Dopamine?
It helps regulate the "Fight-or-Flight" response and reduces stress reactions in the body"
What is practicing Mindfulness?
It is the body's stress hormone. It curbs functions that would be harmful in a fight-or-flight situation. It is released by the adrenal glands.
What is Cortisol?
It is located in the center section of the brain; between the two temporal lobes.
What is the Limbic System?
It controls thirst, temperature, hunger, and other homeostatic systems and is involved in sleep and other emotional activities.
What is the Hypothalamus?
It is a chemical that helps regulate attention, behavior and body temperature.
What is Serotonin?
It means to be still and to focus on our present experience without judgement and without our mind wandering to the past or future.
What is Mindfulness?
An automatic physiological reaction to an event that is perceived as stressful or frightening.
What is the Fight-or-Flight System?
Damage to the structures comprising the limbic system may affect these emotions.
What is aggression, anxiety, pleasure, and anger?
It is the part of the brain that controls cognitive behavior, personality expression, decision making, and moderating social behavior.
What is the prefrontal cortex (PCF)?
It is both a hormone and a neurotransmitter. It plays an important role in the body's "fight-or-flight" response. It is released by your adrenal glands in response to stress. It triggers what is known as the "Fight-or-flight" response.
What is Epinephrine?
It involves standing with your feet at shoulder distance, with your arms by your side, lifting your arms, and holding 10 seconds.
What is Gentle Strectching?
It is the system that drives the "Fight-or-Flight" response?
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System?
The Limbic System plays this role in anxiety.
What is increasing arousal and attention to the environment?
It is that part of the brain that control emotions.
What is the Amygdala?
It is located in your brain and spinal cord. It increase alertness, arousal, and attention. It constricts blood vessels which helps maintain blood pressure in times of stress. It affects your sleep-wake cycle, mood and memory.
What is Norepinephrine?
It involves using pencils or markers to fill in a Mandala focusing on the lines, shapes, and symbols, and clearing the mind.
What is Coloring?
It activates the sympathetic nervous system.
What is the Hypothalamus?
It heals the Limbic System.
What is Meditation and Mindful Movement Practices?
It is the brain's emotional control system.
What is the Limbic System?
It can stimulate a response or block a response and thus can have excitatory or inhibitory effects.
What is Acetylcholine?
It involves focusing on the flavor, texture, without chewing or swallowing.
What is eating Candy?
The body needs about________minutes to physically recover from an acute stress reaction.
What is 20 minutes?
These are two disorders that affect the Limbic System.
What are Anxiety and Depression?