Disorders
This mood disorder is characterized by persistent sadness, loss of interest, and feelings of hopelessness lasting at least two weeks.
What is Depression?
Working in educational settings, this professional assesses learning and behavioral issues and collaborates with teachers and parents to support student mental health.
What is a School Psychologist?
Discovered by Ivan Pavlov, this type of learning occurs when a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus and begins to elicit a similar response.
What is Classical Conditioning?
These chemical messengers transmit signals across synapses between neurons, influencing mood, movement, and cognition.
What are Neurotransmitters?
What does NAMI stand for?
What is the National Alliance on Mental Illness?
People with this disorder experience alternating periods of depression and mania, marked by extreme mood swings.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
This specialist helps individuals recover from addiction through therapy, relapse prevention strategies, and education on coping mechanisms.
What is a Substance Abuse Counselor?
Known as the father of psychoanalysis, this Austrian neurologist proposed that unconscious drives and childhood experiences shape personality.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Located at the front of the brain, this region is responsible for executive functions such as decision-making, planning, and impulse control.
What is the Prefrontal Cortex?
What educational presentation, delivered in schools, raises awareness about mental health and suicide prevention among middle and high school students?
What is NAMI 'Ending the Silence'?
In this disorder, individuals experience intrusive, unwanted thoughts and perform repetitive behaviors to reduce distress, despite recognizing their irrational nature.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
This medical doctor diagnoses and treats mental disorders using psychotherapy, medication, and other interventions, often working in hospitals or private practice.
What is a Psychiatrist?
This Swiss psychologist developed a stage theory of cognitive development, emphasizing how children’s thinking changes as they grow.
Who is Jean Piaget?
Discovered by Paul ______ , damage to this region of the left frontal lobe results in difficulty producing speech, known as expressive aphasia.
What is the Broca’s Area?
What year was NAMI founded by a group of families in Madison, Wisconsin who were seeking better support and resources for people with mental illness?
1979
This trauma-related disorder develops after exposure to a life-threatening event and is characterized by intrusive memories, avoidance behaviors, negative mood changes, and heightened arousal.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
This practitioner provides therapy and advocacy services, addressing clients’ mental health needs in connection with social, environmental, and economic factors.
What is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)?
This behaviorist developed the theory of operant conditioning and designed an apparatus known as the “_____ Box” to study reinforcement.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
This neural circuit, involving the ventral tegmental area and nucleus accumbens, was found to play a central role in motivation and addiction.
What is the Dopamine Reward Pathway?
What NAMI initiative empowers college students to promote mental health awareness, peer support, and advocacy on their campuses?
What is NAMI 'On Campus'? AKA US!
This personality disorder is marked by instability in relationships, self-image, and emotions, often involving impulsive behavior and fear of abandonment.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)?
With a Ph.D. or Psy.D., this professional conducts psychological testing and therapy, focusing on research-based treatment of mental and behavioral disorders.
What is a Clinical Psychologist?
Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga’s research revealed that the brain’s hemispheres have specialized functions, leading to insights on lateralization.
What is The Split-Brain Discovery?
Discovered in the premotor cortex of monkeys by Giacomo Rizzolatti’s team, these neurons fire both when performing and observing an action, suggesting a basis for empathy.
What are Mirror Neurons?
What are the 5 core values of NAMI?
What are Hope, Inclusion, Empowerment, Compassion, and Fairness?
We believe in the possibility of recovery, wellness and the potential in all of us.
We embrace diverse backgrounds, cultures and perspectives.
We promote confidence, self-efficacy and service to our mission.
We practice respect, kindness and empathy.
We fight for equity and justice.