Neuro Note 5: Inside Out

Although I had heard a lot about the children’s movie Inside Out, I had never seen it, and never considered that it would be a movie that I could write a neuro note about. I was interested in how this would connect with neuro, so I set out to watch it.
The movie is about an 11-year-old girl named Riley that is going through a life-changing move from the mid-west to San Francisco. The movie depicts the ups and downs of Riley’s emotions, and how this event is being processed through each of her emotions inside her brain. The movie personifies the emotions Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust, and Sadness and tells of their everyday adventures in an 11-year-old, and even occasionally reveals the thoughts/emotions of her parents.

I think this movie is great for children to watch so that they understand their emotions, and as the movie shows, that each emotion has a place in their life and they all have important jobs (even sadness) in order to make up a person’s personality. I especially think this would be a good movie for a child with autism that has trouble understanding emotion. It shows what each emotion looks like and could help them understand what they are feeling or notice what other people around them are feeling. I would recommend this movie to OT practitioners, as I myself would use this as both a student in fieldwork and a practitioner in the field. For example, if a patient has a traumatic brain injury with damage to their temporal or frontal lobe (which control emotion/expression of emotion) this movie could put 'faces' to the names of emotions and help that client better understand what they are feeling and others are feeling. Additionally, being diagnosed with a neurological disorder can be confusing, both to the individual diagnosed and their family, by using this movie-especially with children- to demonstrate that all of the emotions have their place in a person's life, it can help them understand that being angry, sad, or scared about the diagnosis (or potential genetic predisposition like with Huntington's Disease) is OK, and that joy is still there. Overall, I think that this movie can be beneficial to an OT practitioner in many ways, and that all OT's and health care workers (especially in pediatrics) should watch and use it in practice. 

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Rivera, J. (Producer), & Docter, P. (Director). (2015, June 19). Inside Out [Motion Picture]. United States: Walt Disney Pictures.

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