Mental, Emotional, Social, and Physical Health
10th Grade · Health · 60 min
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Learning Objective
I can analyze the interrelationship between mental, emotional, social, and physical health.
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The amygdala acts as an emotional alarm system, while the prefrontal cortex helps to tame emotional responses by evaluating situations.
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The hippocampus is involved in encoding and consolidating emotional memories, linking emotions to the context in which they occur.
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Early trauma and stress can lead to an overactive and oversensitive amygdala, which can override the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, leading to emotion-based reactions.
