Parts of the Brain
These sensory parts of the body become more alert during the stress response.
What are the eyes or ears?
A normal and adaptive response to a perceived threat
What is the fight or flight response?
The layer of the brain that controls our basic, living functions.
What is the brain stem or reptilian brain layer?
This person provides Americans with the best scientific information available on how to improve their health and reduce the risk of illness and injury.
What is the Surgeon General?
The part of the brain that is also known as the master gland that signals the adrenal glands in the stress response.
What is the pituitary gland?
This is the natural chemical the body produces when they feel like they are bonding to other people.
What is Oxytocin?
The coping strategy that attempts to move your limbic brain into your senses processing brain.
What is grounding?
The layer of the brain associated to decision making, intellect, and judgement.
What is the cerebral cortex or the outer, primate layer?
Teens spending too much time on social media are ____ times as likely to develop a mental health issue in their life as those who do not.
What is 2?
A part of the brain that stores long term memories related to joy and fear.
what is the hippocampus?
The hormone that is released in response to an extreme situation, that can allow us to preform tasks normally out of our skill/reach
What is adrenaline?
Ensures that all students in educational settings are treated equally and protects against various forms of discrimination.
What is title IX?
The layer of the brain that this unit has focused on.
What is the middle (limbic) layer?
This is known as the brain's (natural) reward chemical.
What is dopamine?
The part of the brain that initiates the fight or flight response
What is hypothalumus?
The part of the body that releases adrenaline
What are the adrenal glands?
The coping strategy that takes specific negative thought patterns and changes them into more positive, realistic thoughts.
What is reframing?
The layer of the brain that induces a "stress response"
What is the limbic or mammalian layer?
These are the two major mental health related issues that teens will develop with too much routine social media use.
Anxiety and depression
The three major parts of the brain concerning fight or flight?
what are Hypothalmus, Hippocampus and the Amygdala?
These are the 4 'happy chemicals'.
What are Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, and Endorphins?
This involves a deeper emotional connection, whereas it's counterpart is a more external feeling of caring and sorrow for a situation.
What is empathy vs sympathy?
The part of the brain that when activated by the amygdala, makes us breathe faster, heart rate increase, and sweat more.
What is the brain stem (reptilian layer)?
Teens who are on social media over ______ hours daily are at increased risk for developing mental health issues.
What is 3?