Synapse to Symptom
A ready-to-teach unit that walks students from neurotransmitter pathways and receptor signaling to the symptoms and treatments of 15 mental-health conditions, using Doc Lobe's interactive 3D brain and synapse model.
Each packet pairs one section of Doc Lobe with learning activities, a culturally relevant mini-lesson, student forms you can print in 10 languages, and a rubric for every task. Built for college courses, counselor education and professional development.
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A ready-to-teach unit that walks students from neurotransmitter pathways and receptor signaling to the symptoms and treatments of 15 mental-health conditions, using Doc Lobe's interactive 3D brain and synapse model.
A classroom unit on nine brain-imaging methods, what each can and cannot show about mental-health conditions, and why no scan can diagnose depression, ADHD or schizophrenia on its own.
A hands-on MRI anatomy unit in which students navigate the three imaging planes, read T1, T2 and FLAIR contrast, and compare exaggerated teaching-model changes with real published effect sizes for 15 conditions.
A classroom unit that moves from the structure of the DNA double helix to epigenetic switching, prenatal stress transmission and chronic stress across generations, with a focus on repair through counseling, family programs and structural change.
A collection guide that orients students on the 3D Brain and then ties together Doc Lobe's chemistry, imaging and anatomy lessons so students can view one condition through three lenses.
Three ready-to-run activities, two printable forms and five rubrics that take students from the Kemetic Model of the Person through the 20th-century reclamation movement to the research-ethics protections born from Tuskegee, Henrietta Lacks and other harms.
Three classroom-tested activities, two printable forms and five rubrics that use the page's Microaggression Sort, Psychology and the Law timeline and Dark Triad section to build cultural humility and forensic reasoning.
Three hands-on activities, two printable forms and five rubrics that use the Build a neuron lab, the Signal Path game, the glia section and the Lifespan slider to teach how neurons communicate and how the brain is built and rebuilt across life.
Three ready-to-teach activities, two printable forms and five rubrics that use the 3D Body Model, the playable HPA Axis animation and the Diathesis-Stress Model sliders to show how hormones, stress and sex differences shape mental health.
Three structured activities, two printable forms and five rubrics that teach students how the DSM-5-TR is organized, how to read a disorder entry, how clinicians move through the diagnostic process and how the manual has changed since 1952, all without reproducing copyrighted criteria.
Three ready-to-run lessons that use fictional vignettes, the Cluster A/B/C filter tabs and the Beyond Ten Boxes section to teach how personality disorders are described, classified and treated, without ever diagnosing a real person.
Three lessons that turn the 91-profile Theorists & Scholars directory, the Theorist Match game and the 20-question Theorists exam into a scholar jigsaw, a confidence-calibration check and a multi-perspective case panel that centers African American, Latino, Indian and Asian scholars alongside the classics.
Three lab sessions that walk students through all nine Research Methods Lab modules, from levels of measurement and the Test Chooser to hand-computed z, t and regression problems checked with the site's calculator and tables, to a thesis-to-article publishing plan.
Three lessons that move students from the history and law of American schooling to today's equity data and then across to the DNA and the Epigenome lesson, so they can explain how generational harm and generational strength shape who gets an equal, and an equitable, education.
A three-session packet that turns the Academic Stress in the Classroom page into a stress-biology walkthrough, a research-reading lab on the 2024 lecture-stress experiment, and a TILT assignment redesign workshop.
A three-session SAS lab packet that walks students from choosing a public mental health dataset to running weighted survey analyses of NHANES PHQ-9 depression data and reporting results responsibly.
A three-session prevention-education packet in which students read current youth and young-adult use data, map risk and protective factors to evidence-based programs, and design a prevention plan with SAMHSA's Strategic Prevention Framework.
A ready-to-run retrieval-practice packet showing teachers how to use Doc Lobe's Flashcards, Knowledge Check, and Game Lab (Solo, Take turns, Buzzer battle, and Live games) and how to turn Class results data into next-day teaching decisions.
A three-session packet that uses Doc Lobe's research poster on generational trauma and education to teach students how to read, critique, and build an academic research poster.
A two-session packet that teaches students to judge, choose and use psychological instruments responsibly, with hands-on reliability analysis and a cultural lens on measurement.
A two-session packet that teaches the major perspectives on personality through theorists from many cultures, with a jigsaw, a culture-and-self comparison and a personal theory reflection.
A two-session packet that revisits classic social psychology through culture, belief systems and religion, with a belief systems carousel, case analyses and a contact-based intervention plan.
A two-session packet that teaches career development theory through multicultural scholars, interactive 3D models and McGee's Career Personality Multicultural Approach, with direct links to mental health, ACEs and generational trauma.
A two-session packet on group types, stages, Yalom's therapeutic factors and leader skills, with a fishbowl skills lab and a culturally responsive group proposal.
A two-session packet on crisis intervention, direct suicide inquiry, safety planning, intake and SMART treatment plans, with role-plays and a clinical priorities practice.
A two-session skills lab on attending, the basic listening sequence, reflection of feeling and meaning, influencing skills and broaching, with triad practice and transcript analysis.
A two-session packet on moral principles, confidentiality and its limits, key cases and laws, boundaries, telehealth and a seven-step ethical decision-making model.
A two-session packet on needs assessment, logic models, formative and summative evaluation, outcome measures, RE-AIM and culturally responsive evaluation.
A two-session packet that follows one life from birth to old age through Piaget, Vygotsky, Erikson, Kohlberg, Gilligan, attachment, Marcia and Bronfenbrenner, with ACEs, resilience, aging and grief.
A two-session packet on systems thinking, the major schools of family therapy, EFT and the Gottman Method, genograms, and ethics and safety with more than one client, with family role-plays and a genogram lab.
A two-session packet on what psychiatric medications do in the brain and the body, their uses, typical doses and side effects, red flags, scope of practice and equity, with a 3D explorer jigsaw and medication conversation role-plays.
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