Seasonal
What is the name for seasonal depression?
What is SAD? (Seasonal Affective Disorder)
What is mindfulness?
What is being present with your thoughts and feelings without being judgmental.
This 19th-century railroad worker survived an iron rod passing through his head which provided rather early evidence that the frontal lobe controls personality.
Who is Phineas Gage?
True or False: All-or-nothing thinking is a thinking style called cognitive distortion, or black and white thinking.
What is true.
This phenomenon refers to the finding that people tend to remember uncompleted or interrupted tasks better than completed ones.
What is the Zeigarnik Effect?
What a common home treatment for seasonal depression?
Happy light
What are three common activities that promote wellness and mindfulness?
What is coloring, mediating, yoga, journaling, drawing, walking/being in nature, etc.
This specific type of MRI measures changes in blood oxygen levels to map which parts of the brain are active during a specific task.
What is fMRI.
True or false: You can't practice mindfulness while being active like walking or washing dishes.
What is false.
Correct Answer: You can.
What are the words to spell out the acronym ANTs, meaning random thoughts that automatically pop into our heads that are often negative and/or biased?
What is Automatic Negative Thoughts?
What is the percentage of adults in the US that have seasonal depression?
What is 5% of adults in the US?
This activity can improve immune systems and their ability to fight off illnesses.
What is mindfulness?
*Can boost immune response and lower inflammation
This neurological condition causes a mixing of the senses, such as tasting words or seeing music.
What is synesthesia.
True or False: The CBT triangle that has three parts used to understand how we feel and act are thoughts, feelings, actions.
What is False?
Correct Answer: Thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
This patient, known as H.M., underwent a bilateral medial temporal lobectomy to treat epilepsy.
What is the difference between Winter Blues and Seasonal Affective Disorder?
What is disruption of daily life?
Name five of the pillars of mindfulness.
Non-judging, patience, acceptance, trust, non-striving, beginners mind, and letting go.
This hormone, one of the love hormones, is also associated with social bonding and trust.
What is oxytocin.
True or False: The stress hormone that is released by the body during fight or flight response is epinephrine.
What is false.
Correct Answer: Cortisol.
Ernest Hilgard used this term to describe a split in consciousness during hypnosis. Where one part of the mind is aware of pain while another is not.
What is dissociation?
While SAD is a form of depression, it can sometimes be a component of this other disorder, featuring mood swings between winter depression and summer mania.
What type of stress is a good helpful survival instinct?
What is short-term stress?
This part of the brain, responsible for the "fight-flight-freeze" response, has been shown to reduce in reactivity through regular mindfulness.
What is the Amygdala?
True or False: Physical conditions such as diabetes or heart disease can NOT increase the risk of developing a mental health issue.
What is false?
In 1943, a pediatrician and psychologist published a landmark paper describing a group of children with extreme loneliness as well as an inability to relate themselves in the ordinary way to people. He and Hans Asperger independently used the same word to describe this then-unnamed condition.
Bonus points if you can name the condition.
Who is Leo Kanner?
And AWTISM.