Parts of the Brain
This part of the brain connects to the spinal cord.
What is the brain stem?
This disorder is characterized by long periods of intense sadness and hopelessness.
What is depression?
This is the name for an injury that occurs in the brain following an impact to the head.
What is a TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury)?
The cognitive skill of focusing on one thing while ignoring all others.
What is attention?
The core idea behind this theory is that talking about the things that are bothering you can help clarify them and put them in perspective
What is talk therapy?
This lobe of the brain is responsible primarily for behavior, learning, personality, and voluntary movement.
What is the frontal lobe?
This disorder is characterized by feelings of worry or fear that are strong enough to interfere with one's daily activities
What is anxiety?
This is the name for a brain injury that occurs due to stroke, poisoning, asphyxiation, or other non-traumatic means.
What is an ABI (acquired Brain Injury)?
Part of the memory system where information is stored for roughly 30 seconds.
What is short-term memory?
A form of psychotherapy that treats problems and boosts happiness by modifying dysfunctional emotions, behaviors, and thoughts. It is the most widely-used evidence-based practice for improving mental health.
What is CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)?
This is the name for the cells that make up most of the brain.
What are neurons?
This disorder is characterized by thoughts or experiences that seem out of touch with reality, disorganized speech or behavior, or decreased participation in daily activities.
What is schizophrenia?
A progressive disease that destroys memory and other important mental functions.
What is Alzheimer's?
The unlimited capacity memory store that can hold information over lengthy periods of time.
What is long-term memory?
A specific type of cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy developed in the late 1980s by psychologist Marsha M. Linehan to help better treat borderline personality disorder.
What is DBT (dialectical behavior therapy)?
This is the name for the chemicals that help transmit messages in the brain.
What are neurotransmitters?
A serious, potentially debilitating condition that can occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a natural disaster, serious accident, terrorist incident, sudden death of a loved one, war, violent personal assault such as rape, or other life-threatening events.
What is PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
A group of symptoms associated with a decline in memory or other thinking skills severe enough to reduce a person's ability to perform everyday activities.
What is Dementia?
These skills are involved in smaller movements that occur in the wrists, hands, fingers, feet and toes. They involve smaller actions such as picking up objects between the thumb and finger, writing carefully, and even blinking.
What are fine motor skills?
A form of psychotherapy in which the person being treated is asked to recall distressing images while generating one of several types of bilateral sensory input, such as side-to-side eye movements or hand tapping.
What is EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing)?
This is the part of the brain that is primarily responsible for experiencing emotions and helping form memories.
What is the amygdala?
This rare disorder is characterized by two or more unique personalities that "live" in one person, and "swap out" to handle different situations.
What is DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder)?
A chronic memory disorder caused by severe deficiency of thiamine (vitamin B-1). It is most commonly caused by alcohol misuse.
What is Korsakoff's Syndrome (Korsakoff's Dementia)?
Skills that involve larger movements made with the arms, legs, feet, or entire body.
What are gross motor skills?
A branch of psychotherapy that works with families and couples in intimate relationships to nurture change and development.
What is couples or family therapy?