This lesson reviews and strengthens the concepts of neuron physiology and neurotransmission, and connect these concepts to attention-defict/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Students will learn about the nervous system, the neuron, and the brain. Students will also research and debate the use of medication in ADHD treatment from an assigned point of view and list the pros and cons of including medication as part of ADHD treatment plans.

This resource is an article from the Smithsonian Magazine about a Russian family which fled into Siberia in the 1930's and was not seen by other humans until the 1970's. The article discusses why they fled, how they lived, and what impact this had on their children.

This resource describes four steps to enable students to learn how to manage OCD as a means of self-treatment.

Students will watch a film to explore different programs for rehabilitating prison inmates in the United States.

This resource describes Freud's psychodynamic perspective and the assumptions of this perspective on personality development.

This article discusses how neuroimaging and neuroimaging techniques are used to determine the effects of brain injury or disease on brain systems related to cognition and behavior and to determine how rehabilitation changes brain systems.

This resource provides explanations of the bystander efffect and strategies to teach students how to be an upstander instead of a bystander.

This resource provides background information on Gordon Allport and his contributions to the field of social psychology.

This article discusses a scholar's question of how the elderly is treated in various cultures.

This case study identifies how perceptual and cognitive factors may play a role in a car accident.

In this TED video, psychologist Elizabeth Loftus who studies false memories, shares stories and statistics and raises important ethical questions regarding memory.

This is a resource which allows students to review the different parts of the brain. There are quizzes available for students to take to review the information in the simulation.

This lesson plan explores the ways in which memory affects life and connects with other aspects of human society.

In this lesson, students will identify the literary elements of plot, theme, and character in a work and use indirect characterization and psychoanalytic criticism to analyze a character and explain how the character contributes to plot and theme. Final assessment inclues an analytical essay.