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day 1

2009-06-22

Negative feedback system •

body temp going up to kill infection once the right temp is received the temp will maintain or go down

Stress •

Hans Selye ○ Used rats  The rats had the same reaction to the stressors  He coined GAS 

Alarm stage •

Fright, Fight or Flight ○ Chemical





Stage of Resistance (Adaption) •

Are you going to do something about this



Hormones (Fright or Flight)

Stage of Exhaustion •

When body cannot cope and cannot get back to homeostasis



Where bad things can happen (disease, etc.)

 Psychoneuroimmuology





Looking at how all the systems are connected



Much research

What have we found out? ○ How the body responds to stress  Look to diagram 

Stressor •

CNS activated and sends message to hypothalamus



Can also send a message to SNS



Hypothalamus sends message to ○ SNS, Anterior Pituitary and Posterior Pituitary



Sympathetic Nervous System ○ Norepinephrine  Increase BP  Increase Pupil dilation  Increase gastric secreation

 Etc

Other Hormones •

Endorphins ○ Natural opiates ○ Can be released in pleasure (exercise) ○ Can be felt during overwhelming pain (coping)



Growth Hormones ○ Released from anterior pituitary ○ Carbohydrate metabolism ○ Good when Under surgery and During exercise ○ Can cause a problem with chronic stress  Will not develop properly



Prolactin ○ Breast milk (lactation and breast development) ○ Ante-pituitary ○ Adaptive response (when pregnant and need to prepare body to feed baby)



Oxytocin (childbirth) ○ Both men and women during orgasm

○ Also during stress like childbirth ○ Increase bonding with child (social attachment) •

Sex-steroids ○ Testosterone  Chronic stress decrease in testosterone  Veterans get shots of Testosterone



Unintentional and intentional injuries

Genes – cells the code for specific traits •

Locusts

Mutations – What happens when our DNA goes wrong •

Base pair substitutions – A-C and T-G ○ At some site along the chromosome instead of T-G it is A-C

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