Brain and Behavior
This neurotransmitter is often associated with mood regulation and is targeted by many antidepressants.
What is Serotonin?
Myth or Fact: Mental Health Conditions can be preventable.
What is fact?
While some mental illnesses may be unpreventable, others can be partially or fully prevented through early intervention, addressing risk factors, promoting healthy lifestyles, and providing social support.
According to WHO, 1 in this many people will be affected by mental or neurological disorders in their lifetime.
What is 4?
True or False: Self-Care is a fix all for mental health problems.
What is false?
True or False: The human brain is the organ with the most fat.
What is true?
The human brain is 60% fat
Neuroplasticity refers to the brain’s ability to do this.
What is change and adapt?
Myth or Fact: Diet is important to mental health.
What is fact?
This is the most common mental health disorder worldwide.
What is Anxiety Disorders?
This practice, often involving breathing and awareness, has been shown to reduce anxiety and improve focus.
What is Mindfulness?
True or False: Your brain can't actually multitask.
What is true?
The brain switches quickly between tasks — so what we call “multitasking” is actually rapid task-switching, which can increase mental fatigue.
This brain chemical, often called the “feel-good” neurotransmitter, is linked to reward and motivation.
What is endorphins?
Myth or fact: Self Harm is a pre-cursor to suicide.
What is myth?
Most people who self-harm are not trying to die — but it can be a warning sign and increases the risk of future suicidal behavior.
50% of mental health problems begin by this age.
A. 10
B. 14
C. 24
D. 30
What is 14?
Acting out during childhood is often times seen as just part of being a kid; however, this is not always the case. Acting out can be a sign of underlying mental health concerns or other life stressors!
This term refers to the ability to bounce back from adversity.
What is resilience?
True or False: There's a name for the fear of being without your phone: nomophobia.
What is true?
It's short for "no mobile phone phobia".
The brain stops developing around this age.
A. 18
B. 22
C. 25
D. 28
What is 25?
Myth or Fact: Poor mental health increases your risk of heart disease, stroke, and cancer.
What is fact?
This state fell from 30th to 46th in the 2024 America's Health Rankings for mental health.
A. Colorado
B. Nevada
C. Illinois
D. Georgia
What is Colorado?
The CDC recommends this many minutes of moderate exercise per week to support mental health.
A. 90 minutes
B. 150 minutes
C. 280 minutes
D. 420 minutes
What is 150 minutes?
This recommendation is designed to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety, among other benefits.
True or False: The term “gaslighting” originated from a psychological experiment in the 1960s about memory distortion.
What is false?
Term originated from a 1944 movie called Gaslight.
This part of the brain is involved in emotional regulation and is often overactive in anxiety disorders.
What is the amygdala?
Myth or Fact: Emotions can be categorized as “good” (like happiness and calm) and “bad” (like anger, sadness, and fear).
What is myth?
Emotions like anger, fear, and sadness help us process experiences, set boundaries, and protect ourselves
Across the U.S. economy, serious mental illness causes how many billions in lost earnings each year?
A. $25 billion
B. $75 billion
C. $193 billion
D. $310 billion
What is 193 billion?
Experts suggest incorporating activities and practices from five dimensions into your self-care routine. These five dimensions include: physical, mental, spiritual, ______ and ________.
What is social and emotional?
True or False: Men attempt suicide at a rate 4X higher than women.
What is false?
Men complete suicide at a rate 4X higher than women, but research shows that women are twice as likely to attempt.