Brain Hemispheres

Question 1

What statements do NOT describe mental disorders/illness:

Answer 1

1. bad parenting/behavior
2. personal weakness or deficits in personality
3. poor nutrition
4. poor lifestyle choices or poverty

Question 1

What is Mental illness?

Answer 1

A health condition that changes a person’s thinking, emotion, or behavior. Causes a person distress and difficulty in functioning

Question 2

What does mental illness disturb?

Answer 2

One’s thinking, emotion, and behavior

Question 3

What can cause mental illness? Other facts?

Answer 3

1. Perturbations in the function of various brain circuits
2. Genetic and environmental factors
3. May range in intensity
4. Lead to functional impairment
5. Respond to evidence-based treatments provided by trained professionals

Question 4

Do people with mental illness look sick?

Answer 4

No. Most people look fine, even happy, when dealing with a mental illness

Question 5

Can people show physical symptoms of mental illness?

Answer 5

Yes. People can show explicit symptoms such as confusion, agitation, or withdrawal

Question 6

What is the ratio of people affected by mental health?

Answer 6

One of four

Question 7

What is the percent (or ratio) of Americans over 18 that suffer from a diagnosis mental disorder?

Answer 7

20% (One of Five)

Question 8

What is the percent of people who have more than one mental illness?

Answer 8

3%

Question 9

What is the percent of people who are not able to function in society because of their mental illness?

Answer 9

5%

Question 10

How many children under 18 years old suffer from mental illness?

Answer 10

12 million

Question 11

What is the estimate of children who do not receive help for their mental illness?

Answer 11

2/3

Question 12

What is the estimate of children who do receive help for their mental illness?

Answer 12

1/3

Question 13

What is the brain made up of?

Answer 13

cells

Question 14

mental illness is associated with changes in the brain’s…

Answer 14

1. function
2. structure
3. chemistry

Question 15

What are the functions of the brain?

Answer 15

1. cognition
2. behavior
3. somatic
4. signalling
5. emotion
6. perception

Question 16

How many bones are in the brain/skull?

Answer 16

22

Question 17

What connects the bones of the skull together?

Answer 17

ossified joints

Question 18

What are ossified joints?

Answer 18

AKA sutures, joints that have hardened over time

Question 19

What are the meninges?

Answer 19

3 layers of the membranes found before the skull

Question 20

What is the cerebrum?

Answer 20

largest part of the brain divided into four parts

Question 21

What are the four parts of the cerebrum?

Answer 21

1. Frontal
2. Parietal
3. Temporal
4. Occipital

Question 22

What is the function of the frontal?

Answer 22

problem solving, motor solving, spontaneity, memory, language, initiation, judgement, impulse control, social behavior

Question 23

What is the function of the parietal?

Answer 23

processing sensory information (touch, taste), hand eye coordination, tell you where your body is in space

Question 24

What is the function of the temporal?

Answer 24

auditory perception/hearing

Question 25

What is the function of the occipital?

Answer 25

visual perception/seeing

Question 26

What connects the two hemispheres of the brain together?

Answer 26

corpus collosum

Question 27

How does homeostasis fall into play with the brain?

Answer 27

If not balanced, then something WILL go wrong