Week 2: Mood, Personality, & Sleep
The Suicide of Dorothy Hale
Frida Kahlo, 1939 (James C. Harris, 2003)
We learn the science of mind and behavior to care for persons with mental illness. Start by spending a couple minutes with a painting depicting an experience of mental illness. What is happening here? What comes to mind? How do you feel? Why? Follow the white rabbit.
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain - Emily Dickinson
Now let’s read a poem. Read it twice. What emotions do you feel? Want to know even more? Wander down the rabbit hole.
Now let's play a game
Remember the game, Memory? Match a pair of hippo cards in the first of three short games. Once a match is made, you earn an opportunity to learn this week’s material.
Alternatively, if you are interested in learning modules, click the module button.
If you prefer to get offline and read an actual book—who doesn’t?—please refer to the following pages in the required course textbook. The textbook cannot be accessed online, but can be found in libraries and bookstores, and read outside.
Be assured: it’s the same material presented differently.
Epidemiology
Let’s zoom out to the population level. Spend the next five minutes exploring population-health datasets so you can start understanding the scope of mental illness locally, nationally, and internationally.
let's Keep Playing!
Remember Memory? It’s time for the second round of matching hippo cards.
Music can change a mood.
Sometimes you want a mood matcher
Sometimes you want a mood changer
For each week, students helped us build playlists.
Final Games
Remember Memory? Here’s your final round of matching hippo cards for the week.
Learn more
what are you reading these days? here are some suggestions if you're feeling bookish
new Neuroscience based Nomenclature. NbN2r app
2-Minute Neuroscience videos
NICE Guidelines
Stop a Suicide: Online resource for clinicians
WACO Guide: Psychopharmacology in Primary Care