Chapter 2: Biological Foundations of Mental Health

Question 1

What regulates wakefulness/arousal?

Answer 1

Reticular Formation

Question 2

What regulates our physiological activity?

Answer 2

brainstem, and midbrain

Question 3

How does arousal and physiological activity relate to mental health?

Answer 3

we can regulate some of it through drug intervention and the use of psychoactive drugs

Question 4

What controls our sensation and perception?

Answer 4

the somatosensory homunculi

Question 5

What controls our movement?

Answer 5

the sensory-motor loop

Question 6

How does sensation and movement relate to mental health?

Answer 6

exercising often is a good way to optimize our mental health

Question 7

How does thought relate to mental health?

Answer 7

good mental health allows for people to think and reason clearly

Question 8

Emotion

Answer 8

our feeling states

how we deal with fluctuations fo emotions

Question 9

Mood

Answer 9

a longer period assessment of a person’s emotional state

Question 10

Memory

Answer 10

store, retain and retrieve information

Question 11

What brain structures regulate our memory?

Answer 11

hippocampus and the amygdala

Question 12

Conditioning related to memory

Answer 12

overtime if people are continually exposed to certain conditions, they may began to manifest it within their physiology (neuroplasticity)

Question 13

What is the main INFLUENCE on our personality?

Answer 13

Environmental factors

Question 14

What is personality?

Answer 14

behavioural traits and characteristics of an individual

Question 15

What DETERMINES our personality?

Answer 15

genetics

Question 16

epigenetics

Answer 16

even if we inherit genes for certain traits, we may not develop the condition

Question 17

What fuels the brain

Answer 17

glucose

Question 18

How is the brain protected?

Answer 18

meninges
cerebrospinal fluid
blood-brain barrier

Question 19

Impact of hormones on our mental health

Answer 19

• change mental activity
• women can experience mood changes caused by hormones
• illness can cause hormone levels to be too high or too low
• testosterone in males can impact mental function and behaviour

Question 20

Seasonal Affective Disorder

Answer 20

common in the winter months (canada)
difficulty sleeping and depression symptoms
light can relieve depression

Question 21

Plasticity and regenertivity of the brain

Answer 21

functions of the brain may be taken over by different areas if there is damage
brain cells can regenerate throughout life