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| 3 Psychosocial factors that contribute to CAD |
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1. Promotes pathogenesis of atheroscelorsis
2. Contributes to unhealthy lifestyle behaviours i.e. smoking
3. Coexisting psychosocial stresses form a barrier to lifestyle modification success. |
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| 7 Conditions with extensive evidence for mind-body therapies |
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+ CAD
+ Headaches
+ Insomnia
+ Incontinence
+ Chronic lower back pain
+ Symptoms of cancer
+ Improving postsurgical outcomes |
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| Mediated through brain and SNS to preserve life through increased blood flow, attention and metabolism, mobilising immunity + clotting factors and preparing for tissue repair. |
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| Prolonged stress and SNS activation leads to wear and tear. Allostatic load leads to immune dysregulation, atherosclerosis, metabolic syndrome, bone demineralisation and atrophy of brain cells. |
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| Memory and allostatic load |
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Definition
| Hippocampus expressed high levels of adrenal steroid receptors and thus responds to stress and trauma & is a malleable brain structure in learning. Neurons in this area atrophy in response to stress whereas the amygdala grows (anger) |
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| Brain regions active in default states show amyloid deposits in adults with Alzheimer's disease. Attention demanding tasks reduce this activity. |
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| Mortality doubles in elderly who have a regular sleep during the day due to affects on waking on SNS, diurnal rhythm, melatonin and serotonin. |
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| Psychosocial factors as CHD prognostic factors |
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Definition
+ Type A personality
+ Depression and anxiety
+ Work characteristics
+ Social support |
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| Intrauterine effects of maternal lifestyle and emotion on neurological and cardiovascular development and foetal growth. Eg. Maternal stress impairs uterine blood flow and increases risk of CHD later in life. |
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| Ability to know where one's attention is and be able to direct it to where it needs to be. TV puts attention to shit, particularly faced paced shows like Spongebob. |
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| Interventions for dementia |
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Definition
| Medications (cholinesterase inhibitors), behavioural change, exercise, diet and socioeconomical. |
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| Connection between immune system and mind. Thus negative emotions decrease the immune system function. |
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| During high stress period there is a shift towards type II hypersensitivity where Ig bind to pts own cells. |
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| Cerebral dominance and HIV |
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Definition
| AIDs progression is associated with a shift from cellular to humeral immunity. HIV its with greater left-cerebral dominance showed greater cell-mediated immunity for longer and slower disease progression. |
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| Therapeutic effects of music |
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Definition
| Relaxation, pain management, reduces cardiac reactivity, decreases stress, improved immunity and increased melotonin levels etc. |
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